Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:28:32 +0100 From: Eric Brasseur <eric.brasseur@softhome.net> To: openoffice@FreeBSD.org Subject: mute (dead) keys problem for french OpenOffice Message-ID: <200212101528.32763.eric.brasseur@softhome.net>
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Hello,
There is a serious problem installing OpenOffice (4.7) on a FreeBSD machine
dedicated to type french and probably other languages that need mute keyboard
keys for some characters like ô ö û ü â ä ê ë î ï ... You simply cannot get
those characters. Whatever OpenOffice release or portage is used. Yet there
is no problem with other word processors or editors.
I made an issue for it at OpenOffice : issue 9939. It is now solved. The texte
of the solution is pasted below.
Sincerely
Eric Brasseur
Solution is environment variable LANG should be set to fr_FR.ISO8859-15 before
starting OOo. This can be written inside the "swriter" start script and
inside the other scripts for starting OOo components ("scalc", "sdraw"...).
(Or it can be typed inside an X terminal window before starting an OOo
component fromout that terminal. And first issue bash or sh command in order
for the export command to be recognized.)
export LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-15
Another solution is following can be done to FreeBSD (4.7) configuration
files, to enable french localisation globally:
At the end of /etc/rc.conf add following lines:
font8x8="iso15-8x8"
font8x14="iso15-8x14"
font8x16="iso15-8x16"
At the beginning of /etc/login.conf change the "default:" lines so they
include the last two statements charset= and lang= as follows:
default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
:setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
:path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games ... \
:charset=ISO-ISO8859-15:\
:lang=fr_FR.ISO8859-15:
Post Scriptum : mute keys is same as dead keys. And ISO8859-1 yields the same
results as ISO8859-15 so far tried out.
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