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I can't type àáèéíìòóúù and ü

Bug #250953 reported by Francesc Lara Escamilla

This bug report was converted into a question: question #40137: I can't type àáèéíìòóúù and ü.

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Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

It only happens with Open Office, thunderbird, firefox, ant all kubuntu (8.04) works perfectly. I've been looking for a solution on the web, and I saw lot of people with the same problem (and they are repaired with different solutions, I've tested all, but it was useless).

My computer:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 22 22:47:20 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Francesc Lara Escamilla (6qlara) wrote :
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GercoKees (gercokees) wrote :

Hi,
I feel that this is not a bug but a question...
Let me try to get you through this:
does:
insert > special character
work?

Changed in openoffice.org:
status: New → Invalid
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Francesc Lara Escamilla (6qlara) wrote : Re: [Bug 250953] Re: I can't typeàáèéíìòóúù and ü

Hi!

After few days looking info on it, I found the solution. Working on
kubutu, happens that Open Office can't use the special characters. I
thought that was only using Open Office, because other programs hadn't
that problem. I also sent an e-mail to another developer and told me
where was the "mistake". It's simple, just type
"sudo gedit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local" (using kate) and added
"es_ES.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15" at the end (I'm spanish, for this reason
I use the accents). Then, I also had to change:
"sudo gedit /etc/environment" delete the Lang and put this:

LANG="es_ES.ISO8859-15"
LANGUAGE="es_ES:es:en_GB:en"

Finally, just reboot, and that was.

Thanks for the help, I've just left from Windows and I've seen that this
is much better.

Thank you.

I

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