From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M2Mcb-0001rW-7n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 May 2009 09:44:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E949E03A9; Fri, 8 May 2009 09:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE136E03A9 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 09:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (krikos.xs4all.nl [80.101.94.12]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n489hwRn079594 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 11:43:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Dave.Jones@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <4A03FEDE.4000607@xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:43:58 +0200 From: Dave Jones Organization: Krikos User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090501) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys References: <200905041807.36460.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> <49FF921A.2030506@gmail.com> <200905072149.49333.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> In-Reply-To: <200905072149.49333.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5bf41232-7017-43ac-be8f-71d8afdd0187 X-Archives-Hash: 098aa6d5c045b839bb563086f3e6d3f7 Jim Cunning wrote on 08/05/09 06:49: >>> I=C2=B4m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French= accented >>> characters (e.g., =C2=B4 + e or ^ + a , etc.) I=C2=B4ve 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 t= he >>> US layout without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produ= ce >>> two characters, as one would expect. >>> I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.= 3.=20 >>> Is there something I=C2=B4ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? >> Did you remember to compile OpenOffice with "LINGUAS=3Dfr"? 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 Engl= ish,=20 > not French, but do want to be able to enter accented characters as used= in=20 > French, German, etc., when I select the us-intl keyboard layout. =20 Using KDE 3.5.9, OOo 3.0.0 USE=3D'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