Great Thanx all of You for help. Below is the solution of what was wrong and the summary: 1) openoffice was installed with: emerge openoffice-bin (no LANGUAGE, LINGUAS etc. variable) 2) Launching OO $ locales LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL=
Now sth strange. Without 2 below commands I can't type Polish characters: $ xmodmap -pke > xmodmap.txt $ xmodmap xmodmap.txt $ oowriter2 !!! NO specific LC_ALL, LANG settings !!! Now I can type Polish characters using rigt ALT both in OO and mozilla.. I don't understand above 2 steps with xmodmap. I tried also: $ cp xmodmap.txt ~/.xmodmaprc to have it whenever I log into my account but it didn't help. xmodmap.txt looks like: keycode 8 = keycode 9 = Escape keycode 10 = 1 exclam onesuperior exclamdown onesuperior exclamdown keycode 11 = 2 at twosuperior oneeighth twosuperior oneeighth keycode 12 = 3 numbersign threesuperior sterling threesuperior sterling keycode 13 = 4 dollar onequarter dollar onequarter dollar keycode 14 = 5 percent onehalf threeeighths onehalf threeeighths keycode 15 = 6 asciicircum threequarters fiveeighths threequarters fiveeighths keycode 16 = 7 ampersand braceleft seveneighths braceleft seveneighths keycode 17 = 8 asterisk bracketleft trademark bracketleft trademark keycode 18 = 9 parenleft bracketright plusminus bracketright plusminus keycode 19 = 0 parenright braceright degree braceright degree keycode 20 = minus underscore backslash questiondown backslash questiondown keycode 21 = equal plus dead_cedilla dead_ogonek dead_cedilla dead_ogonek keycode 22 = BackSpace Terminate_Server keycode 23 = Tab ISO_Left_Tab keycode 24 = q Q at Greek_OMEGA at Greek_OMEGA keycode 25 = w W lstroke Lstroke lstroke Lstroke keycode 26 = e E eogonek Eogonek eogonek Eogonek keycode 27 = r R paragraph registered paragraph registered keycode 28 = t T tslash Tslash tslash Tslash keycode 29 = y Y leftarrow yen leftarrow yen keycode 30 = u U downarrow uparrow downarrow uparrow keycode 31 = i I rightarrow idotless rightarrow idotless keycode 32 = o O oacute Oacute oacute Oacute keycode 33 = p P thorn THORN thorn THORN keycode 34 = bracketleft braceleft dead_diaeresis dead_abovering dead_diaeresis dead_abovering keycode 35 = bracketright braceright dead_tilde dead_macron dead_tilde dead_macron keycode 36 = Return keycode 37 = Control_L keycode 38 = a A aogonek Aogonek aogonek Aogonek keycode 39 = s S sacute Sacute sacute Sacute keycode 40 = d D eth ETH eth ETH keycode 41 = f F dstroke ordfeminine dstroke ordfeminine keycode 42 = g G eng ENG eng ENG keycode 43 = h H hstroke Hstroke hstroke Hstroke keycode 44 = j J keycode 45 = k K kra ampersand kra ampersand keycode 46 = l L lstroke Lstroke lstroke Lstroke keycode 47 = semicolon colon dead_acute dead_doubleacute dead_acute dead_doubleacute keycode 48 = apostrophe quotedbl dead_circumflex dead_caron dead_circumflex dead_caron keycode 49 = grave asciitilde notsign notsign notsign notsign keycode 50 = Shift_L keycode 51 = backslash bar dead_grave dead_breve dead_grave dead_breve keycode 52 = z Z zabovedot Zabovedot zabovedot Zabovedot keycode 53 = x X zacute Zacute zacute Zacute keycode 54 = c C cacute Cacute cacute Cacute keycode 55 = v V leftdoublequotemark grave leftdoublequotemark grave keycode 56 = b B rightdoublequotemark apostrophe rightdoublequotemark apostrophe keycode 57 = n N nacute Nacute nacute Nacute keycode 58 = m M mu masculine mu masculine keycode 59 = comma less horizconnector multiply horizconnector multiply keycode 60 = period greater periodcentered division periodcentered division keycode 61 = slash question dead_belowdot dead_abovedot dead_belowdot dead_abovedot keycode 62 = Shift_R keycode 63 = KP_Multiply XF86_ClearGrab keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L keycode 65 = space keycode 66 = Caps_Lock keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1 keycode 68 = F2 XF86_Switch_VT_2 keycode 69 = F3 XF86_Switch_VT_3 keycode 70 = F4 XF86_Switch_VT_4 keycode 71 = F5 XF86_Switch_VT_5 keycode 72 = F6 XF86_Switch_VT_6 keycode 73 = F7 XF86_Switch_VT_7 keycode 74 = F8 XF86_Switch_VT_8 keycode 75 = F9 XF86_Switch_VT_9 keycode 76 = F10 XF86_Switch_VT_10 keycode 77 = Num_Lock Pointer_EnableKeys keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock keycode 79 = KP_Home KP_7 keycode 80 = KP_Up KP_8 keycode 81 = KP_Prior KP_9 keycode 82 = KP_Subtract XF86_Prev_VMode keycode 83 = KP_Left KP_4 keycode 84 = KP_Begin KP_5 keycode 85 = KP_Right KP_6 keycode 86 = KP_Add XF86_Next_VMode keycode 87 = KP_End KP_1 keycode 88 = KP_Down KP_2 keycode 89 = KP_Next KP_3 keycode 90 = KP_Insert KP_0 keycode 91 = KP_Delete KP_Decimal keycode 92 = keycode 93 = Mode_switch keycode 94 = less greater bar brokenbar bar brokenbar keycode 95 = F11 XF86_Switch_VT_11 keycode 96 = F12 XF86_Switch_VT_12 keycode 97 = Home keycode 98 = Up keycode 99 = Prior keycode 100 = Left keycode 101 = keycode 102 = Right keycode 103 = End keycode 104 = Down keycode 105 = Next keycode 106 = Insert keycode 107 = Delete keycode 108 = KP_Enter keycode 109 = Control_R Multi_key keycode 110 = Pause Break keycode 111 = Print Sys_Req keycode 112 = KP_Divide XF86_Ungrab keycode 113 = Mode_switch Multi_key keycode 114 = keycode 115 = Super_L keycode 116 = Super_R Multi_key keycode 117 = Menu keycode 118 = keycode 119 = keycode 120 = keycode 121 = keycode 122 = keycode 123 = keycode 124 = ISO_Level3_Shift keycode 125 = NoSymbol Alt_L keycode 126 = KP_Equal keycode 127 = NoSymbol Super_L keycode 128 = NoSymbol Hyper_L keycode 129 = keycode 130 = keycode 131 = keycode 132 = keycode 133 = keycode 134 = keycode 135 = keycode 136 = keycode 137 = keycode 138 = keycode 139 = keycode 140 = keycode 141 = keycode 142 = keycode 143 = keycode 144 = keycode 145 = keycode 146 = keycode 147 = keycode 148 = keycode 149 = keycode 150 = keycode 151 = keycode 152 = keycode 153 = keycode 154 = keycode 155 = keycode 156 = NoSymbol Meta_L keycode 157 = ... the remaining keycodes are empty ... 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