dot on numeric pad shows as comma

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and an ABNT2 keyboard, which is a qwerty keyboard to the Portuguese language. The difference is that it has a "ç" key, which is very used on the Portuguese language.

On OpenOffice, the dot on the numeric pad, shows a comma instead of a dot. The dot on the alphabetic section works fine tough. The version of the OpenOffice is 2.3.0 and this happens only on the it. Gedit, for example, works fine.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Does this problem only occur on OpenOffice for you? Also which version of the openoffice.org package do you have? Is it 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

Yes, as I said, it happens only on OpenOffice. My version of the package is the 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 as well.

Thanks,

Kemel

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.04?

[Renato S. Yamane (renatoyamane)]

This problem exist in OpenOffice.Org release.

This is a strange/stupid feature requested and accepted by developers:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1820

A lot of NUMERIC KEYPAD have dot/period AND comma, but in OOo both keys send me the same output (comma).

This feature was requested 7 years ago, when an user say: "hey, my numeric keypad have a dot/period, but in my country we use comma as decimal separator".

But now, 7 years later, all keyboards have dot AND comma in numeric keypad. Developers forgot this, implement this feature requested by an user (dot key = comma), and now we have 2 keys (dot AND comma) and only one output (comma).

Best regards,
Renato S. Yamane
Brazil

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Thanks for the update.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I reopened the upstream bug to have someone there investigate the issue.

[Renato S. Yamane (renatoyamane)]

This is brazilian numeric keypad layout:
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/543/ptbrzu6.jpg

This is a en-us numeric keypad layout:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5600/enusdj5.jpg

Best regards,
Renato S. Yamane

[Rodrigo Messias Barros (rodrigomessiasbarros)]

This problem happens to me. I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) with OpenOffice.org 2.4.1. The problem also occurs with gedit, Gnome Console (terminal) and others.

The layout ABNT2 (Brazil) provides a dot "." on the numeric keypad, just below the "+" sign, as shown routed by Renato S. Yamane(see figure attached). But this is not working.

This problem never occurred to me in earlier versions of Ubuntu, only now.

I hope that this can be fixed because is very important the "." (dot) for the use of OpenOffice Calc, for example.

Regards,

(sorry, my english is poor).

[Renato S. Yamane (renatoyamane)]

As we can see in image attached in above post (Pt-BR with ABNT2 variant), this Keyboard have *dot* AND *comma*, but OOo recognized both as comma.

I really don't understand why the hell OOo developers agree with this (different keys sending same signal).
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1820

Best regards,
Renato S. Yamane

[Ander-c3sl (ander-c3sl)]

Brazillian ABNT2 keyboards provides a comma and a dot key on the numeric keypad. The dot key has evdev keycode 129 and the comma key evdev keycode 91. If I understand correctly, the rules file adds +inet(evdev) to the symbols of that keyboard but inet(evdev) sets key I129 to symbol KP_Separator, overriding the previous br setting of KP_Decimal. This combination makes both keys output a comma. Removing the line

key <I129> { [KP_Separator] }

from the evdev section of /usr/X11/xkb/symbols/inet makes those keys behave correctly.

[Sergey V. Udaltsov (svu)]

After discussion on IRC, I am changing I129 to KP_Decimal in symbols/inet. Please check in git

[realmagnum (realmagnum)]

I would like to confirm this problem in a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) with OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 OOO310m19 (Build:9420).

Is there any workaround for this?

It is impossible to use Calc and even Writer with a bad Keypad.

[Renato S. Yamane (renatoyamane)]

Some OOo developers don't live in a real world and think this bug .
They tell me that it is a "non-sense":
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1820

[Rodrigo Messias Barros (rodrigomessiasbarros)]

Hello,

Yes, I confirm that the bug still persists in OOO310m19 OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
(Build: 9420).

regards,

Rodrigo Messias Barros
blogdodigao.wordpress.com
"The Massacre of Ads"

2010/2/24 realmagnum <email address hidden>

> I would like to confirm this problem in a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic
> Koala (9.10) with OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 OOO310m19 (Build:9420).
>
> Is there any workaround for this?
>
> It is impossible to use Calc and even Writer with a bad Keypad.
>
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> dot on numeric pad shows as comma
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194503
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> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Confirmed
> Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: openoffice.org
>
> I am using Ubuntu 7.10 and an ABNT2 keyboard, which is a qwerty keyboard to
> the Portuguese language. The difference is that it has a "ç" key, which is
> very used on the Portuguese language.
>
> On OpenOffice, the dot on the numeric pad, shows a comma instead of a dot.
> The dot on the alphabetic section works fine tough. The version of the
> OpenOffice is 2.3.0 and this happens only on the it. Gedit, for example,
> works fine.
>
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[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

I have the impression it was gone on 3.0 but came back on 3.1.

[Reynaldo Matos Hortensi (lasanhadeberinjela)]

I have this bug since intrepid until lucid.

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario (kemelzaidan)]

Me too. Still an issue on lucid.

[Angel Mass (angelmass)]

Also have this problem in Ubuntu 10.10. notice it only happens in Open Office, other programs read it correctly as a dot instead of a comma

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario, does this issue occur for you in LibreOffice?

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

assming fixed as per https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22303#c1