From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929 Description of problem: I cannot enter umlauts into any document. The previous version FC3T2 and the included openoffice.org version did work, however. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhopenoffice-1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC3T3 and configure a deDE keyboard layout 2. Startup openoffice.org writer 3. enter umlauts Actual Results: The umlauts are displayed as can be seen on the attached picture. Expected Results: Correctly displayed umlauts. Additional info: I have de-installed the rpm - packages for openoffice.org-1.1.2 and installed it anew with an installation archive I have downloaded earlier from the OpenOffice.org website. The same happens. It seems that openoffice.org produces this bug, as no other application that uses the GTK does fail to correctly display umlauts.
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Can you do the following? 1) open a terminal 2) type 'gkb_xmmap de' 3) type '/usr/bin/oowriter' 4) hit the 'ö' key (US keyboard's ';' character) Can you still not see the umlaut? I cannot reproduce this on FC3 using this procedure... Also, are you running any input servers, like iiimf/htt/Canna/FreeWnn? (I can't reproduce by going to the Keyboard preference applet and making a German Basic layout the current layout either...)
Thanks for the hint, but after I have re-installed everything from scratch, switching back to FC3T2, I experience the very same problems now with a former working installation basis. Heck, I should have waited prior re-installing and read your ingenous and valuable hint reg. additional input servers. That did the trick, I just disabled kanna and iiim and now it works as expected. I think we can close this bug but should nonetheless keep in mind that Openoffice has problems with additional input servers, okay?
Now that I have so much excercise with it, I will continue re-installing FC3T3 ... ,-) and de-escalete it again to "absolut stressfrei"
Well, its really a bug since it should work fine with input servers running int he background, I couldn't reproduce this with them running though. Did you just start them up? What was the value of your GTK_IM_MODULE environment variable? I'd like to figure this out so I can reproduce it.
Well, the services (canna etc.) are started during the startup process. I just restarted the system and forgot to disable the services from the respective runlevels and the problem persists. I will now remove them from the respective runlevels in order to get OOo working again, besides I do not really need these services ;-) Note that I also reported the bug to the openoffice bug-tracker, so that they also may have a look at the problem, and, as it only exists in openoffice so far, I presume that it is more like their responsibility rather than anyone else's, or so... The environment variable you are talking about does not exist on my system - however I am just running KDE and that does not necessarily rely on the GIMP toolkit.
I reproduce it on FC3 (fully updated). I would say that all this is UTF-8 realted, cf also #132541. When I tried de_DE.iso88591 it worked well. Only seems to be the problem KDE.
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