no dead-keys in openoffice

[Fabrice Rousselle]

Hi,

I'm using a french-canadian keyboard in hoary and can't get dead-keys 
(letters like 'é' or 'ç') in openoffice.org anymore. This used to work 
and I think it may have stopped working when I switched to UTF-8 
encoding. All other applications that I've tried work fine.

I've seen another report of the same problem that went unanswered.
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-November/010300.html

Does anyone has a clue on how to fix this? Is it an ubuntu bug or 
openoffice?