A quick thanks to all who responded to my query about the Spanish locale. I solved the problem in Woody by setting en_US.ISO8859-1 as the default locale while running dpkg-reconfigure locale. Now OOWriter produces all the Spanish characters.
Best, Ted Parks On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 06:20, Chris Halls wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:50 -0600, Ted Parks wrote: > > I am trying to use the "es" keyboard to type Spanish characters in > > OpenOffice on Woody. Though I use setxkbmap to "es," some Spanish > > letters will not appear in OOffice. I also get a message when OO loads > > that "i18n OS does not support locale ""." > > > > I would appreciate any help, including where else to post a query if > > this list is not appropriate. > > Have a look at the comments about locales here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=240789 > > Chris >