Same error here. No accents in openoffice or amsn.... :/

passing it to tobias!

well i have not this problem but i make some suggestions and hope they will help
here is my xorg.conf of keyboard section and it works for me:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbKeycodes" "xorg"
EndSection

it would also help if you tell me what language you use, what WM and if you run latest arch packages
thanks

If you look at the bug report details you will se this link: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=7541 it has further details of the problem. I'm portuguese, so the keyboard layout is "pt". I can't check my X configuration right now (i'm not using my computer) but i think it's equivalent to yours.

Oh, and about the packages, i run the latest arch packages. I have xorg 6.8.1, use devfs, custom vanilla kernel 2.6.9, but this problem happened also with other default arch kernels and i think i always had it. Besides, I don't think the problem is in the X configuration since my friends have no problems with other distros, and when they use the same configuration in Arch they still have this problem. Also, this only happens with these two programs: amsn and openoffice. I have accents everywhere else: be it terminal, firefox, gaim, vim, etc... I'm not the only one having this, every person I know with Arch can't write accents ONLY(as far as I know) in amsn and openoffice.

Any other doubts or ideas, please post here. Any help is help! :) Thanks!

I use Fluxbox btw, but I know Archers using Gnome and it's the same. I really don't think it has to do with a WM or X because these are the only programs where i can't write á Á à é ã ô... Read the forum link i posted to understand the problem better.

Tobias, i tried using your X keyboard options changing the layout from "de" to "pt" and the problem persists.

This is my keyboard section in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 300"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "pt"
EndSection

Just so you know, to write á ou õ i have to press two keys: first i press the '´' key and then the a key and this is supposed to write á and not ´a. I tried using de "de" layout and the only accented characters i could find were mapped to ONE key. It was the 'u', 'a' and 'o' with two dots ;). If you want to test the "pt" layout i think the '´' is mapped to your '+' and the '~' is mapped to your #.

ok you mean äöü that are no accents in german only normal letters
i'll try it later perhaps i can reproduce it
thanks for researching
byt the wha if you look at the help in openoffice there is a section about accents and how to get them to work perhaps it helps for you

OK, i'll look into that. Thanks.

I've read openoffice's help file, in the accents section, and it doesn't help. I can write fine in xterm, aterm, firefox or whatever... Besides, there is also the amsn problem...

yeeha solution found:
you have no LANG environment variable defined in /etc/profile right?
try that
add
export LANG=pt_PT to your /etc/profile then it should work

oh i forgot you need to logout and relogin after modifying profile file

YAY!! It works!! It even works if i use LANG=en_US! I prefer using en_US because I don't want other programs to have menus in portuguese, besides, all my friends who don't use Arch have it set to en_US and have no problems. THANKS A LOT!!!!

There is STILL one problem though... aMSN still doesn't work properly. Maibe it's another variable (i tried defining LANGUAGE and nothing), or maibe it's an aMSN bug. However, everyone else using other distros don't have this problem.

Anyway, it's great to have openoffice working, at least. Really, thanks a lot! If you can sort out the aMSN problem, i'd appreciate it, i know it isn't a supported package...

Thanks!

closing bug
amsn is not a arch package