On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:26 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, June 2, 2005 14:51, G. Roderick Singleton said:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 14:32 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm new to this list and OpenOffice (but not to Linux).
> >>
> >> On my Linux-box I have defined a special key to be able to type a
> >> Swedish
> >> å on a Swiss-German keyboard.
> >> I have the following in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/de_CH
> >> key <TLDE> { [ section, dead_abovering ] }
> >> With this entry I can press <degree> and then <a> to produce a å or
> >> <degree> and then <A> to produce a Ã…. This works fine in every
> program
> >> (until now) running under X except OO.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions on how to make this work in OO.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> --Dan
> >
> > You might find the methods outlined in
> > http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/Howto_special_char.pdf
> > useful. Give it a go.
>
> Thanks for the link, but it did not help me. I have found out that none of
> the "dead-keys" work within OO even if they work in my normal X
> enviroment.
>
That's too bad. It works for me using dead keys in both 1.9 and 1.1.x. I
do not think that this is an OOo problem though and encourage you to do
a bit more troubleshooting, particularly on the X side.
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