I am using Lenny and OpenOffice 2.4. I use German and Spanish layouts. After installing locales in English, German and Spanish, OpenOffice writes absolutely nothing when I try to type accented vowels (á,í). All other Spanish signs work perfectly (¿,¡.ñ) and the accents work also in all other programs (Iceweasel, Icedove, Desktop). The same thing happens in German, all signs work apart from the accents.

I have tried changing languages in OpenOffice "Options", but nothing seems to help.

I believs this is an old problem, and still I couldn'find anything really useful. Apparently it has to do with locales or language environment... but nobody (after a couple of searchs in Google, Spanish, French and even Italian language) has given a helpful suggestion.

So thanks very much for your help

Raúl

Is this problem only found in Openoffice? I've used 2.4.1 in the past with a Spanish keyboard and never had any problems typing í ú ¿ ? ç Ç or anything else. Are you saying that you can type á and í in, say, Firefox but not in openoffice? I don't think the language options is OOo have to do with your keyboard but rather things like spellchecking, etc. The keyboard is more of a system wide issue.
Cheers,
jdk

Hello Jdk,

many thanks for your answer. Well yes, the problem was only in Oo, nowhere else. But I found the solution. I found out that the package openoffice.org-gnome hadn't been installed. I performed the installation and now eveything works perfectly - although I didn't install any relevant locales nor changed any files ".../.profile" nor did anything of the kind (all suggestions I had found in other forums and lists).

Why this problem affects only the accents (also in the German Keyboard) and none of the other special signs of the particular language, is of course a mystery.

Perhaps this solutions can help other users.

Thanks again.

Raúl

Have you installed the gnome-i18n stuff for Spanish and German?
jdk