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Re: French keyboard dead key problem



On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:32, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Le mar 10/02/2004 à 09:09, Shane McAndrew a écrit :
> > I am running Debian/testing with openoffice.org
> > 1.1.0-3 installed. Sometimes, I want to write in
> > French. To switch keyboard maps in other X11
> > applications such as emacs and mozilla, the command
> > "setxkbmap fr" works fine. But when I do this in
> > openoffice, the dead keys don't work. For example, to
> > get e circumflex (ê) I would normally type the
> > sequence "[e". If I do this in OOo, nothing appears.
> > Note that other accented characters such as e acute
> > (é) work fine. It's not a font problem because if I
> > copy and paste ê from another application into OOo, it
> > does appears.
> Chris, it seems to be exactly the same problem as mine.

In that case I don't have any good answer.  The only reason that I know
of accents not working is because of problems in the locale settings.

Shane, can you post the output of the 'locale' command please?

Chris



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