Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 33298
Swedish Charectors ?? ?? ?? not displayed properly when typed.
Last modified: 2004-09-30 18:31:43 UTC
When writing a document in the Word Processor in the current downloadable version of OpenOffice.org the special swedish charectors/letters ö, ä, and å are not displayed charectly when typing them. If I open an existing document that has these letters in it, it will display them properly, but it will not display them when typed. I have tried using both the english and swedish (1.1.2rc3_sv) released versions of OpenOffice.org to no avail. I have verified that the laungauge preferences are set to swedish, the swedish dictionaries are installed, etc. I am not sure if the problem is related to the new X11 Server in my current Linux release(Fedora Core 2 using X11.org instead of XFree86) and the way OpenOffice.org is relating to it. The Gnome Word Processor (Abi) that comes in the release displays the charectors fine when typing them, however I prefer OpenOffice.org.
MRU->US: please have a look.
I can not confirm the reported issue on fedora core 2 with OO.o 1.1.2. Pls. attach a screenshot and a simple document that shows the error. Thx.
keyword added.
Created attachment 17375 [details] sample document of error.
Created attachment 17376 [details] Screenshot of error
The only application I am having these problems with is OO.o. I have removed all profile specific files/directories, and I have created a new user acoount and home directory and recieved the same problem. Is there a static system config file that is not in the standard '/usr/local/"OO.o"' that does not get removed on an uninstall that could be the cause of the problem? If you need any additional information please let me know.
Thanks for the document and screenshot. I recall I saw something similar with composed latin-2 characters some weeks ago after fiddeling around with several locale and setxkbmap settings. Up to this time composed characters worked fine for me in OO.o. Even a complete new installation of OO.o didn't help - so there had to be something wrong with the system. I couldn't find something wrong with OO.o that time, apart from the wrong characters being entered. As seen on your screenshot too, for one character entered, two special characters are appearing in OO.o. Normally this indicates a wrong/inappropriate locale setting ("C") resulting in an inappropriate character input routine chosen XLookupString vs. XmbLookupString. I verified that the locale reported to OO.o was correctly set with a modified soffice shell script outputting the current locale. Everything looked fine. As a workaround I logged out from the "Default" desktop session and re-logged in with kde. From that moment on I never had any problems again no matter what desktop environment I chose. I can only offer to debug into this when the problem arises again.
. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 32772 ***
Closing dupe.