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Charles
11-05-2005, 09:43 PM
I have been banging my head against the wall, and I finally found out what the problem is.

Basically, I was able to type latin characters like ã, ñ, ù, ó, etc...Except in OpenOffice.org. I have gone through the language configuration of OpenOffice.org's Tools menu with no luck. So, in OpenOffice.org, when I typed á, nothing happened.

The problem came from the file ~/.login_conf, it was not set to function with UTF-8 the latest character set standard. I changed it to my language and using UTF-8 and now OpenOffice.org works like a charm:

# $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login_conf,v 1.3 2001/06/10 17:08:53 ache Exp $
#
# see login.conf(5)
#
me:\
:charset=UTF-8:\
:lang=pt_BR.UTF-8:


:)
pcbsdusr
11-06-2005, 04:43 AM
good, i had that problem as well. Can the openoffice 2.0 pbi fix this?
Charles
11-06-2005, 06:33 PM
There is no OO.o 2.0 PBI.
The problem is not the application, it's FreeBSD's misconfiguration. It's configured mainly for English.
pcbsdusr
11-06-2005, 08:22 PM
Aha! So what we need is a (non beta) openoffice 2,0 package and some work on the system right?

The OO2 package should be availabe already as it was already released some time ago...
Derbeth
11-06-2005, 08:23 PM
Shouldn't UTF-8 be selected by default? Now every used with non-English alphabet has to change his encoding manually.
Charles
11-06-2005, 09:58 PM
I haven't had to change anything manually, and this tweak has done the job pretty well - No bug so far.
Derbeth
11-06-2005, 10:00 PM
I mean - shouldn't UTF-8 be default in login_conf?
Charles
11-06-2005, 11:12 PM
Yes it should :roll:
pcbsdusr
11-07-2005, 12:35 PM
who's gonna contact kris for this? It should be done via an update.

As for the Open=ffice 2.0 pbi... Can anyone do this or do we have to wait for kris to do it again?
Charles
11-11-2005, 08:22 PM
We seriously lack PBI creators :?