[users] Internationql virtual keyboards

[Tillie Ch'ien]

I am working on a document in French on a MacBook with a British 
keyboard. Even though I have chosen the language as French with a mask 
of a French keyboard, I cannot make OpenOffice (both the French version 
and the English version) to recognise the French characters. Do I have 
to connect to a physical French keyboard to work?  All other 
applications I am using recognise the virtual keyboard.
Any advice will be welcome.
For example, I cannot get *é , ç, à, è, ç *to work.