Jerônimo Backes wrote on 05/03/06 14:21:

>>>> What seems odd is that OpenOffice is the only application affected,
>>>> while all other applications work correctly under KDE.

>>> Oh, I forgot to mention: DON'T use UTF-8 with KDE if you need to use
>>> some special keyboard layouts. Stay with ISO-8859-1 (the default
>>> encoding). KDE has issues with UTF-8 and certain keboard layouts.

>> As far as I know, I'm not using UTF-8 with KDE.

>> Could you please tell me how I can check if KDE is using UTF-8, or how I
>> can force KDE to use ISO-8859-1?

> Here goes the documentation about UTF-8 with Gentoo:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml

> Replace anything related to UTF-8 with ISO-8859-1 on your system.

Uh oh, looks like a major rework. Should keep me out of mischief!

>> Are you running KDE 3.4.3, or KDE 3.5?

> I'm with KDE 3.5.2 and everything is working okay.

It's probably time I moved on to KDE 3.5.2 anyway. Thank you very much
for all your help, much appreciated!

Cheers, Dave
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