Good evening, I am using the German version of OpenOffice.org Writer on a Mac G4 under OS X 10.5. While normal functions work fine - a great thanks to all who developed Open Office! - I have a specific problem when dealing with Unicode characters not normally accessible through the keyboard. I have no problem to insert a special character, e. g. u+016B (LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH MACRON) via the menu insert, special character. However, I have not found any possibility to enter such characters in a field in the search/replace dialogue nor in the AutoCorrect dialogue. In these contexts pasting the special character does not work nor does switching the keyboard table to a language that makes this character accesible via the keyboard (e.g. Lithuanian) help as even like this the "normal" character as indicated on the keyboard is used. I have not found any information on how to solve this in the FAQ nor in the OpenOffice help.
As I am a beginner in using OpenOffice.org Writer I assume that I am doing something very simple wrong, so excuse, please, if I am pestering you with this question, but I would be very grateful if you could explain to me how to overcome this problem. Thanks a lot and best regards, K. Wöbking
