Openoffice and national characters [SOLVED]

larsbrandi · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Denmark

I've upgrade three of my amd64 boxes to 2005.0 and everything went fine. Almost. On one of my boxes ( box 1 ) Openoffice after the upgrade woulden't type the national danish characters æøå. Tried the two other ones and they typed æøå. Hmmmm

On one of the functioning boxes ( box 2 ) i tried to update emul-linux-x86-baselibs and emul-linux-x86-xlibs from 1.2 to 2.1 and voila : no, æøå in Openoffice, and i checked ( box 1 ) and it was upgraded to emul-linux-x86-baselibs-2.1.4 and emul-linux-x86-xlibs-2.1. Anyone expirenced a similar behaviour before ?

I have tried to downgrade these two packages, but this seems to be a little more complicated than just to add these two packages to packages.mask. Any help would be appriciated.

Lars Brandi Jensen
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Lars Brandi Jensen

jsfan · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:00 pm Post subject:

Are you using a Danish or an English OO?
I had the same problem with German umlauts with the English OO. I then added LINGUAS="de" to my make.conf and
re-emerge'ed OO, ghostscript and all font packages I could find. I don't know what finally did the trick but in the end I had
umlauts again... :-)

larsbrandi · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Denmark

Well, after four days of emerge -e openoffice-bin, upgrading and anything else I could imagine, it went out that it was utf I was missing. So what came first, the chicken or the egg, i don't know, but i did this, and i t worked :

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml

Then in make.conf I put "utf" as use flag, and :

emerge --unmerge openoffice-bin
USE="utf" emerge openoffice-bin

That's it.
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Lars Brandi Jensen