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



On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 14:55, Jordi Salvat i Alabart wrote:

> 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?

	Yes, changing from pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 to pt_BR solves it.

	Gracias!


> 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)

	I am sure the string is local.


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

	Could it be compilation?  As I said, the YellowDog packages worked OK.


> 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.

	Or just set it straight away.

	Gracias, muchacho!


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