Bo Andresen wrote on 10/05/06 12:55: >>For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the >>locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. >>Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed.
>>I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the >>quote keys and Open Office work perfectly. > Does this not work for you (# means run as root, $ means run as user)? > # localedef -i en_GB -f ISO-8859-15 en_GB.ISO-8859-15 > $ LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 oowriter2 The LC_ALL command above did not work, giving the following error messages: I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "en_GB.ISO-8859-15" Qt: Locales not supported on X server Checked out my defined locales with locale -a C en_GB en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 en_US en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 POSIX LC_ALL=en_GB.iso885915 oowriter2 works fine. In fact, all the above locales except for C and POSIX work fine in OpenOffice. It seems that OOo does not depend on a utf8 locale, but does needs a local other the C or POSIX. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
