Bug#182232: openoffice.org: Does not interpret locale environment variables correctly
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.0.2-2
Severity: normal
$ locale
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=
$ locale charmap
UTF-8
$ env|grep 'LC\|LANG'
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
$ ooffice
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale ""
and then dead keys and other compose sequences do not work.
$ LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8 ooffice
and dead keys/compose sequences work.
OpenOffice is using $LANG instead of $LC_CTYPE somewhere. The rest of
the X Window System relies on LC_CTYPE for finding out the charset of
the locale and compose key definitions.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux perlas 2.4.20-mg #1 Sat Feb 22 18:28:27 EET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.0.2-2 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.0.2-2+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.0.2-2 English (US) language package for
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