Bug#229758: openoffice.org: accented character input not working due to locale munging
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.0-5
Severity: normal
$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
I use a dead key with a custom /usr/lib/X11/locale/lt_LT.UTF-8/Compose
file to input Lithuanian accented letters. This works in all X
programs; it needs a little workaround (export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim) for
Gtk2 programs. It does not work in OpenOffice.
Some investigation revealed that my dead keys start to work if I change
LC_ALL to lt_LT.UTF-8 before starting OpenOffice. Apparently the shell
script /usr/bin/openoffice does some sort of locale clobbering to work
around OpenOffice bugs. This workaround breaks in my environment.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux perlas 2.4.21-mg4 #1 Thu Jun 19 13:41:53 EEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii debianutils 2.6.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dictionaries-common 0.16.2 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.1.0-5 OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.1.0-5+1 Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.0-5 English (US) language package for
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Marius Gedminas
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