Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys

[Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@gmail.com>]

Jim Cunning wrote:
> I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented 
> characters (e.g., ´   + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts 
> and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and 
> other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply 
> dead--no characters produced at all.  When switching back to the US layout 
> without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters, 
> as one would expect.
>
> I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3.  Is 
> there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system?
>   
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Did you remember to compile OpenOffice with "LINGUAS=fr"? May be
something to consider adding to your make.conf to get around
language/localization issues.