Jim Cunning wrote: > I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented > characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts > and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and > other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply > dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the US layout > without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters, > as one would expect. > > I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. Is > there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? > (Resending, due to SMTP failure notice)
Did you remember to compile OpenOffice with "LINGUAS=fr"? May be something to consider adding to your make.conf to get around language/localization issues.
