[Fedora-i18n-list] OpenOffice in spanish environtment

[Lawrence Lim]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 23:16, Alejandro Regodesebes wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I installed FC3 (full install) and got the updates,
> but there is a problem which is still unresolved. In a
>  Spanish environment (that is Spanish language and
> Spanish keyboard), when iiim service is active,
> OpenOffice.org doesn't print the “ñ” character (the
> “n” with the “~” above, in case you can't see the
> character in this email), but instead prints the “A”
> an the “plus-minus” characters. The same occurs when
> you try to write some symbols, like the degree symbol.
> Accented characters, however, seen to works fine.
> 
This sounds very similar to bug 130851.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130851>

Could you please try again with UnitLE?


> But, and here is the main problem, when I turn the
> iiim service off, this characters prints correctly but
> the accented characters doesn't appears anymore!
> 
I will get back to you on this issue after my test environment has been
set up. :)

> A similar problem was already in FC2, but in that
> version OpenOffice.org worked fine when I turned iiim
> off, and I know, from reading the Spanish discussion
> list of Ooo, that I'm not the only user with this
> problem.
> 
> I've tried installing Ooo from the main OpenOffice.org
> site, and following the instructions from the
> iimf-FAQ, but nothing happened.
> 
> Another problem: since my country (Argentina) had
> signed some commercial accords with China, learning
> Chinese is becoming a massive phenomena, just in the
> university where I works the number of students of
> Chinese is growing exponentially moth after moth. So
> this is a great opportunity for free software. What is
> needed is to use FC3 in Spanish environment, with
> OpenOffice.org in Spanish, and to be able to switch
> between Spanish and Chinese (both, traditional and
> simplified) for writing in Ooo (using pinyin).
> 
> But I can't switch the input method in iiimf. In
> gnome, when I try to add languages to gimlet, the list
> is empty. 

This is due to bug 131217. You need to start an application to get it
active.
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131217>

> In KDE, some applications like kedit appears
> to works fine (switching between Spanish and Chinese),
> but OpenOffice.org doesn't. The version that came with
> FC3 opens, you can switch from Spanish to iiimf, but
> when I try to select any language from the list in the
> little window that appears, the programs just 

Are you referring to GIMLET? 

> In the OOo version from the official site, I can
> switch with CTRL + space, but I can't put it in
> pinyin. With the old xcin method, calling Ooo from a
> script, Ooo works (but that is too difficult for the
> “average MS-Windows user”). However, in every case the
> problem of printing the special characters that I had
> mentioned before remains.
> 
> Any idea? Thanks everybody (and please forget my basic
> English). Thanks.
> 
> 
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