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[xkeymap] OOo Calc, locale fr_FR, numpad '.' not replaced with ',' when locale decimal separator is ','

Bug #188331 reported by Olivier Mengué
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Bug Description

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In OOo Calc the numpad '.' should be replaced by the decimal separator of the current locale.
The checkbox in Outils > Options > Paramètres linguistiques > Langues > Touche séparateur de décimales doesn't change the behavior.

This has been a long issue in OOo 1.x which is reported to have been fixed in OOo 2.0.
See issue 41403 in OOo IssueZilla:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41403

I'm using the keymap "France, Autre".
xserver-xorg-input-kbd is 1.2.0-1+1.2.1ubuntu1
My OpenOffice.org package is 2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 (Ubuntu 7.10).

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Olivier Mengué (dolmen) wrote : Re: OOo Calc, locale fr_FR, numpad '.' not replaced with ',' when locale decimal separator is ','

The problem is related to the keymap:

$ xmodmap -pke | grep 'keycode *91'
keycode 91 = KP_Delete period comma U202F comma U202F

Here is the workaround:
$ xmodmap -e 'keycode 91 = KP_Delete KP_Decimal KP_Separator U202F comma U202F'

Here is my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
        Option "XkbVariant" "oss"
EndSection

I will report a separate bug for the xserver-xorg-input-kbd package.

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Olivier Mengué (dolmen) wrote :

I've reported bug #188342 for the keymap issue.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

So if I understand you correctly this isn't a bug in OpenOffice it is rather a bug in xkeymap?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

Changed in openoffice.org:
assignee: nobody → ccheney
status: New → Incomplete
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
assignee: ccheney → nobody
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I think this is indeed purely a keymap issue, so I'm marking this as a duplicate of the other bug Olivier reported.

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