Bug 91074 – Open Office doesn't work with a Swedish keyboard layout.

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erik Östlund 2005-05-01 11:04:07 UTC]

I have a Swedish Open Office running that doesn't accept input of localized characters from the keyboard. All other keys work fine but when I press a localized key nothing happens. Localized keys work fine in other applications, including Firefox, most KDE applications and the console.

What can I do to fix this?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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# emerge info

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 19:27:41)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.7.9-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo"
LINGUAS="sv en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
curl emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2
mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib png qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xv zlib
linguas_sv linguas_en"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

# locale

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE"
LC_TIME="sv_SE"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE"
LC_NAME="sv_SE"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE"
LC_ALL=sv_SE

[Comment 1 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-05-07 11:54:51 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88868 ***

[Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-05-11 08:09:02 UTC]

Sorry, you are right, was too fast in marking this as duplicate, reopening.

Try to also set LANG and see if that helps

[Comment 3 Erik Östlund 2005-05-12 09:04:02 UTC]

 I've managed to resolve this issue by completing the Gentoo Linux Localization Guide, reconfiguring X and running perl to troubleshoot a few things. There really are a ton of things that can go wrong but now I think they're all worked out.

 I wish locale configuration was a lot simpler and that something should scream loudly when the system isn't properly configured. But that's another day and another bug. Let's close this one.