Issue 39820 - Danish NLS support broken in OOo 1.1.4
Summary: Danish NLS support broken in OOo 1.1.4
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 32772
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.4
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2005-01-03 15:27 UTC by epodata
Modified: 2005-01-06 16:28 UTC (History)
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Description epodata 2005-01-03 15:27:10 UTC 
I am running Linux Fedora Core 3 with latest maintenance. The general language
is English but the keyboard is a Danish keyboard arranged a little differently
from a US keyboard; it has especially three Danish letters, æ ø å Æ Ø Å. During
system generation the keyboard is defined as Danish which most processes use
without problems - like the entry in this description.

In OOo 1.1.4 the letters come out as garbage when the corresponding keys are
pressed. Please understand that I am running the English version of OOo because
I have other nationalities using the system. Maybe this is the reason why the
letters come out as garbage? Which they shouldn't.

Regards,
Erik P. Olsen
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-01-03 15:53:09 UTC 
reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 epodata 2005-01-04 15:12:26 UTC 
I have just found an almost identical issue with a Norwegean keyboard which BTW
is the same as the Danish. It is Redhat Bugzilla bug #124538
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124538> to which a patch
for OOo 1.1.1 is attached. Since the symptoms are the same it should be easy to
produce a fix for OOo 1.1.4. It looks like the fix was not migrated into version
1.1.4.

Regards,
Erik P. Olsen
Comment 3 lohmaier 2005-01-04 20:10:13 UTC 
probably a duplicate of issue 32772
please try setting the environment variable "USE_XOPENIM" to "true".
Comment 4 epodata 2005-01-04 22:53:08 UTC 
Setting USE_XOPENIM=true fixed the bug. Should it be set globally or local to
OpenOffice? I've set the variable in the soffice script.

What about the fix from
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124538>?
Comment 5 lohmaier 2005-01-06 16:27:06 UTC 
It does not really matter where you set the variable (at least not for OOo) - if
you don't have other programs needing this variable (or interfering with it) it
is prefectly fine to set this only for OOo.

Since setting the environment variable works, I mark this one as duplicate of
issue 32772

I'm not a programmer and cannot tell what the fix does and whether it is
appropriate.

And even if it was, OOo 2.0 should not show the bug, so it is kind of obsolete. 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 32772 ***
Comment 6 lohmaier 2005-01-06 16:28:03 UTC 
closing duplicate.
Will copy the link to redhat bugzilla to issue 32772