On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:18, Vegard Munthe wrote:
> Hi, I've got a small configuration problem with setting up a locale
> properly to work with OpenOffice 1.1.3 on Debian GNU/Linux.
>
> Locale: ti_ER.UTF-8
>
> I have also set up this locale on a Fedora Core 3 system, where everything
> works fine (also OO 1.1.3). I have tried to set everything up similarly on
> a Debian Testing system, but instead of the Tirgigna characters oowriter
> shows latin characters.
>
> This is how I've set it up:
>
> On my Debian system I have set up the locale with dpkg-reconfigure
> locales, and set LANG=ti_ER. After turning on UTF-8 character encoding in
> my gnome-terminal, the 'date' command shows the Tigrigna characters as it
> should. So far so good.
>
> In this gnome-terminal I then start oowriter on the command line, and it
> is here that my Fedora Core 3 system behaves differently. On Fedora the
> ti_ER locale works in oowriter even if I get the following warning in the
> console:
>
> Ggk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib
> Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers
>
> So Fedora Core 3 gives errors, but works with a Tigrigna font (GF Zemen
> unicode).
>
> On my Debian GNU/linux testing system I do not get the Gdk warnings when I
> start oowriter, even though the locale environment is the same as on the
> Fedora Core 3 system. And oowriter does not show tigrigna characters with
> the GF Zemen Unicode font, only latin characters.
I've no idea what chars you expect but are you sure that they are available in
the fonts that you use, and that you've set Tools -> Options -> Language
settings to the correct values ?
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