[ubuntu-uk] special characters for french in ubuntu and open-office

[Alan Pope]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:37:50AM +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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> Wulfy wrote:
> | Try pressing <AltGR>; e which should give é.  If it does, the other
> | accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard.
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> This does not work for me and hasn't in the 4 years or so that I've been
> using Linux (Fedora and Ubuntu).
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> AltGr+e gives e

AltGr+e gives e here too, however 

> Ctrl+Alt+e gives e
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Try AltGr+Shift+', then keeping AltGr down but releasing shift, press e.. I 
get ě, if I dont hold shift at all I get ê.

What do you get as the first line from the locale command?

alan at hactar:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

Cheers,
Al.