Bug 82848

Summary:	can't type circumflex and diaerasis
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Papipio <pithomas>
Component:	Linguistic	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	barta
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.2.6.2 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:	BSA
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:

Description Papipio 2014-08-20 07:15:22 UTC

Bonjour,

As OS I use Kubuntu 14.04.

Current behavior:
Sometimes typing circumflex and diaerasis in Writer and Calc is OK, and often it is impossible !  I can't type  ë  â  ï  û ... : at this moment it is OK !!  I don't understand what happens when it becomes impossible.

Expected behavior:
Being able to type these letters combining the use of two keys as I can do when I use Thunderbird which never fails.

When I installed Kubuntu I had problems to type these letters. Finally, as keyboard disposition, I chosed  Français (variante obsolète, touches mortes Sun)  which is OK with all applications excepted Libre Office !

And just now, I copied this message in Writer: it is impossible to type anything more !!!!!

Pierre
Operating System: Ubuntu
Version: 4.2.6.2 release

Comment 1 tommy27 2014-08-20 08:01:51 UTC

which is your localization?
what do you do exactly to type those special letters like  ë  â  ï  û  ?

Comment 2 Urmas 2014-08-20 12:24:51 UTC

Apparently a Kubuntu bug. Kubuntu is NOT endorsed or supported by Canonical.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 82787 ***

Comment 3 Papipio 2014-08-20 19:23:57 UTC

I am French, Kubuntu and all application parameters are set for French.
These letters are typed with one key : é , è , ç , à , ù
These letters are typed with 2 keys : ê , ë , î , ï , û , ü , ô , ö , â , ä , ŷ , ÿ
The first key is _ ^ _ / _ "    ,   _ " _ is obtained using the shift key. The letter is entered by the second key.

If it is a Kubuntu bug, why does the problem occur randomly only with Libre Office ?

Pierre

Comment 4 Urmas 2014-08-21 11:48:11 UTC

Unless you use the standalone LO from its site, you should report problems in your distro bugtracker.

Comment 5 Papipio 2014-08-21 12:02:27 UTC

OK Urmas, I thank you.

Pierre

Comment 6 Yassine Chaouche 2019-02-07 11:06:59 UTC

Bonjour Pierre ! 

Can't reproduce this in 4.2.6.2, but I defintely have the same problem with 6.1 (i.e can't type the ^ character or any of ê, ô etc.)

My keyboard is azerty, the langauge and the locale in LO are set to french in both 4.2 and 6.1. Can't think of a particular difference except the 4.2.6.2 is my own distro's package, but 6.1 was downloaded from the libreoffice website.

Yassine.

Comment 7 Papipio 2019-02-07 11:23:33 UTC

Bonjour Yassine,

I was tired asking for help to solve my different problems with Kubuntu.
I remembered I had no problem when I used Mandriva with KDE a few years ago to discover Linux: everything was OK. So I installed Mageia Linux with KDE Plasma and everything was OK !  Sorry for Kubuntu !
In my new desk PC I installed only Mageia 6 + Plasma and this makes me happy !

Pierre