Formatting text with STRG+U doesn't work

[Daniel Rohde-Kage]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Formatting with STRG+U (to underline) lets the marked/highlighted text disappear und replaces it with an underlined 'u'

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 23 21:18:35 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I can't reproduce this problem, can anyone else?

[Daniel Rohde-Kage (daniel-rohde-kage)]

Hello,

of course it is not STRG+U but STRG+SHIFT+U (like formatting bold
characters with STRG+SHIFT+F).
The problem is even bigger: The marked/highlighted text isn't only
replaced by an underlined 'u', this special 'u' reacts very
strange/buggy for example to a line-change and can hardly be deleted.

Explaining this in English is quite an adventure for me.

Chris Cheney schrieb:
> I can't reproduce this problem, can anyone else?
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

[Gert Kulyk (gkulyk)]

Hi Daniel,

this is not a bug, but a "feature" of the gtk-frontend. In all gtk-applications the combination ctrl+shift+u is used to activate the input of unicode-characters. There are several possibilities to cope with that: Either you have to force the use of xim as input-method for ooo (if you do not need the feature, I do), or you simply will need to change the shortcut.

This behavior is known, please refer to Bug #111308 for further information.