accented letters in OpenOffice

kermit · 12-16-2004, 06:05 AM

Hi all,

I'm not able to configure OpenOffice so I can input accented letters (á é í ó ú). I can write them in any other software, and even when I write incorrectly a word, OO corrects it putting the needed accented letters.

I've searched through all the config I've found but I don't know what can be the problem.

Any clues? Thanks a lot!!

bathory · 12-16-2004, 06:22 AM

Run:

Code:

locale

and if the LC_CTYPE value is different from LANG then use the LANG's value (I guess something like es_ES) for LC_CTYPE also.

Regards

kermit · 12-16-2004, 06:33 AM

Thanks a lot man!!

angel@asterix:~$ locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

How can I change that values? Guess I should put es_ES as you say.

bathory · 12-16-2004, 07:11 AM

Temporarily you can set them by:

Code:

export LANG=es_ES
export LC_CTYPE=es_ES
or perhaps es_ES.UTF-8 (depends on distro)

Test if you can write accented letters in OO and if yes put them into your .bashrc or .profile or whatever file initialize your login shell.

kermit · 12-16-2004, 07:22 AM

mmm no. Closed and reopen OO it's the same.

what about those errors that appear now? Do they say something to you?

angel@asterix:~$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

bathory · 12-16-2004, 07:37 AM

You might take a look at this to see if you have correctly installed the locale related stuff.