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?
>
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.
