Re: German "Umlaute" in OpenOffice

[Dietrich Bollmann <d.bollmann@tu-berlin.de>]

I found a way to make the US international keyboard work in uxterm: 
after entering

setxkbmap us_intl

I could display German Umlaute by using the sequences  "u, "U, ... in 
uxterm but OpenOffice would display some Japanese Kanji instead and 
emacs wouldn't display ' and " anymore at all...

I could enter Umlaute in OpenOffice using the German Keyboard (setxkbmap 
de) but emacs doesn't like this new keyboard either and I do not like 
'z' at the place of 'y' and the other way around...

A US international keyboard layout working everywhere would be nice...

Thanks,
Dietrich


Dietrich Bollmann wrote:
> Hi Sergio Cuéllar Valdés,
>
> I thought I did - but did it again - and now the following suddenly 
> shows the "Umlaute" correctly (don't see any difference comparing this 
> line to the one I used before - so probably I forgot to generate the 
> German locale?)
>
>  LANG=de_DE.utf8 LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 oowriter txt.doc
>
> :)
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> But there is still the problem with the keyboard: I still don't know 
> how to input "Umlaute"...
> I would be very happy to use the "US international layout" as I could 
> use the same keys for the same thing in all languages. But I couldn't 
> find a way how to install / use it in Debian (When still using fedora 
> I found it listed in between the keyboard layouts as far as I 
> remember. But I couln't find it in Debian)
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thank you,
> Dietrich
>
>
> Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
> > On 11/7/06, Dietrich Bollmann <d.bollmann@tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > > I am not using a German locale - but some combination which should
> > > (and unfortunately does not) enable Japanese input with English menues:
> >
> > > I tried the following:
> > >
> > >   LANG=de_DE LC_CTYPE=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE oowriter
> > >   LANG=de_DE.utf8 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 oowriter
> > >   LANG=de_DE.iso88591 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.iso88591 LANGUAGE=de_DE.iso88591
> > > oowriter
> > >
> > > but no "Umlaute" are displayed.
> >
> > Hallo,
> >
> > Have you those german locales already generated ?  Have you tried
> > dpkg-reconfigure locales ? Have you selected the language in open
> > office ?
> >
> > Best rergards,
> > Sergio