On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:34:30 +0200
Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> dijo:

> On my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 it works
> perfectly, and so does the compose key.
> On my Eee PC 900 I have Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, and
> neither Ctrl+Shift+u nor the compose key works. I don't know if this
> can be of any kind of clue to anyone…
> 
> Well, I did some more experiments, and the reason for why it didn't
> work on my Eee was that Num Lock was on, so the u key wasn't u
> anymore, but 4, and Ctrl+Shift+4 doesn't mean anything particular, at
> it seems…
> 
> Now I turned Num Lock off, and it works as expected, except that I get
> different characters with my compose key on Ubuntu 9.04 than on my
> Ubuntu 8.10 machine, for example Compose c o gives © and so does
> Compose o c on Ubuntu 9.04. On Ubuntu 8.10 I get © and ǒ respecively,
> but I guess that's another issue…

Wow! So apparently it was just the stupid num lock key! Now I feel like
a real dumbass. :(

I have advised my user to check the num lock key

Thanks a million for figuring it out!
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