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

[Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@xs4all.nl>]

Jim Cunning wrote on 08/05/09 06:49:
>>> 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?
>> 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.

> I'm not sure that's what I need.  I would like OpenOffice to be in English, 
> not French, but do want to be able to enter accented characters as used in 
> French, German, etc., when I select the us-intl keyboard layout.  

Using KDE 3.5.9, OOo 3.0.0 USE='cups dbus gtk java kde ldap linguas_en
linguas_en_GB nsplugin opengl pam'

International keyboard support changed recently with the upgrade to xorg
 1.5.3 with evdev.  Before the xorg  upgrade, I had the international
keyboard layout specified in my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier  "Keyboard0"
 Driver      "kbd"
 Option      "XkbLayout" "us_intl" # Enable accents
EndSection

If you're using the (default) evdev interface you should comment out the
old style input devices for your keyboard and mouse in xorg.conf.

Since implementing xorg 1.5.3 with evdev, I use the KDE keyboard tool to
change the keyboard layout 'on the fly'.

In KDE I've set up my keyboard as a generic 105 key international, with
two layouts: US and US International.

With the keyboard set to US International using KDE keyboard tool, the
deadkey combinations produce accented characters as expected.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Dave