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