Pawel K wrote on 09/05/06 17:28: >>Does composing the Polish characters work for you >>under applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird? >>What specific Polish characters are you missing, and >>how do normally compose them?
It sounds as if you want to be able to produce accented characters such as ÁÉÍÓÚ áéíóú ÀÈÌÒÙ àèìòù ÄËÏÖÜ äëïöü. Am I right in this assumption? > Unfortunately I can't type Polish charecters under > mozilla as well (tried both pl_PL and pl_PL.utf8). I > expect to use right ALT + <character> e.g. right ALT + > o should result with "ó" and now it results with just > "o" both in Mozilla and OpenOffice. Left ALT + o opens > F'o'rmat menu under OpenOffice. Unfortunately, I don't know how much the Polish keyboard differs from the us_intl layout. This might be a stupid suggestion, but try defining your keyboard XkbLayout as us_intl. Using the us_intl XkbLayout, typing the accented characters you want works by hitting a quote ' and o to produce ó, without needing AltGr (right Alt) pressed. Hitting ` and o produces an ò, " and o produces ö, all without AltGr pressed. To produce a single ' or " you need to hit ' or " followed by a space. For some strange reason, on my system OpenOffice seems to need the locale set to utf8 to work properly with international keyboard layouts. Without it, the ' and " keys are dead, working only with AltGr pressed. I don't understand why, but since I changed my locale to en_US.utf8, the quote keys and Open Office work perfectly. > While configuring xorg with xorgconfig I've chosen the > following options: > Please answer the following question with either 'y' > or 'n'. Do you want to select additional XKB options > (group switcher, group indicator, etc.)? y > Group Shift/Lock behavior: > 1 Right Alt key switches group while pressed I have none of these options set in my xorg.conf, just XkbLayout set to us_intl, nothing specified for (no)deadkeys or group switching either. You could try this in your xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl" EndSection After restarting X, try this from a xterm command prompt: LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 oowriter2 Try this, and let us know if this lets you to enter accented characters in Open Office. With or without LC_ALL specified, you should be able to enter accented characters in Mozilla Thunderbird too with XkbLayout set to us_intl. Cheers, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list