Jim Cunning schrieb:
> 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?

What USE flags are set for Openoffice? Does openoffice-bin have the same
problem?

Since you can't have both of them installed, use quickpkg to make a
binary package of your openoffice installation before unmerging it.
Then try out openoffice-bin. When you want your old version back, use
emerge -k openoffice to install from the binary package.