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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 

-- no debconf information


Marius Gedminas
-- 
Thus spake the master programmer:
        "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"



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