Hallo,
I'm running a compiled from source Open Office 2.01 (stable branch), and
am having problems getting Open Office to accept input single and double
quote characters.
I have CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" and
LINGUAS="en en_GB" in my /etc/make.conf Nothing startling there.
In my /etc/xorg.conf I have the following entries for my keyboard:
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
Being an old-fashioned arch Brit I have set up OO to default to British
English. However, I live in Europe, so I use a Logitech Cordless Desktop
Pro US International keyboard, set to US International under KDE 3.4.3.
I do not use UTF-8 for character encoding, but default to ISO-8859-15,
to allow me to use the 'special' accented characters and the Euro sign.
OO does not recognise either single quote (') or double quote ("), but
correctly handles the Euro sign (€) and (composed) accented characters
such as áàéèíìóòöuúù.
I tried setting OO to US English, but this did not resolve the problem;
OO continued to stubbornly ignore both single and double quotes.
Normally in 'US International' mode, both single and double quotes are
produced using the quote key and a space. Other applications seem to
handle these quote characters correctly using my current keyboard set
up. Unfortunately, OO totally ignores these keystrokes.
The only way I can persuade OO to enter a single quote is to use the
Alt-Gr key and '. So far, I cannot produce a double quote " in OO
documents without having to resort to cut and paste.
Has anyone else encountered this problem , or better still, have a
work-round or solution for it?
Thank you in advance for any help or advice you may be able to give.
Cheers, Dave.
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