Wrong character set for latin languages

[Charles]

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]

good, i had that problem as well. Can the openoffice 2.0 pbi fix this?

[Charles]

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]

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]

Shouldn't UTF-8 be selected by default? Now every used with non-English alphabet has to change his encoding manually.

[Charles]

I haven't had to change anything manually, and this tweak has done the job pretty well - No bug so far.

[Derbeth]

I mean - shouldn't UTF-8 be default in login_conf?

[Charles]

Yes it should :roll:

[pcbsdusr]

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]

We seriously lack PBI creators :?