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Re: French keyboard dead key problem



Hi Chris,

Thanks for the links explaining the background info. I
solved the problem by installing the locales package
with en_GB selected, then running the following -

export LANG=en_GB
oowriter

Now the dead keys work, côôl!

 --- Chris Halls <halls@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed,
2004-02-11 at 12:02, Shane McAndrew wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > sss@dellboy4:~$ locale
> > LANG=POSIX
> > LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
> > 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=
> > 
> > Note: I don't have the "locales" package
> installed,
> > since I am not sure if I need it.
> 
> You do need it.  You need to have a locale which
> includes the characters
> that you want to type.
> 
> Here is an openoffice issue with related
> information:
> 
>
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3805
> 
> "as you learned from the link you posted, locale C
> is a 7bit ASCII
> locale. Accented characters are not defined in
> there. For making the
> extended latin character set work, one always has to
> define an
> (iso)locale. Thus OOo works as proposed. => No bug.
> BTW xterm works
> different."
> 
> There is some more background information here:
> 
> http://wauug.erols.com/~balsa/linux/deadkeys/
> 
> I don't know what Emacs and Mozilla do to work
> around the problem.
> 
> Chris
>  


	
	
		
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