Bug#187292: Solution to the accents/dead keys problem

[Jordi Salvat i Alabart <jsalvata@atg.com>]

Hi.

The same problem started happening to me recently. I've found that the 
solution is to set the LANG variable to "ca_ES@euro" instead of the 
"ca_ES@euro.ISO-8859-15".

Leandro: can you please confirm this solves the issue for you too?

Looks like Oo.o is not capable of interpreting such complex locale 
strings. It actually reports so on startup:

  $ openoffice
  Gnome session manager detected - session management disabled
  I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "ca_ES@euro.ISO-8859-15"

(or maybe it's that such locale strings are not legal locales and 
whatever sets it is the culprit)

In any case, there's still a bug in Oo.o, since I can't see why a 
different locale should affect the behaviour of the keyboard: keyboard 
mapping is an X issue, not an app issue.

If the actual bug is to take long to be resolved, I would suggest to 
work around it by adding code to /usr/bin/openoffice to strip off 
anything after the last "." in the LANG string.

Salut,

Jordi.