Why I cannot write accent marks in the comments of the documents, both from LibreOffice and from any pdf editor?

Pere Ferriol

4/7/23, 8:48 AM

When I write a comment on a Libreoffice document, e.g. Writer, or even in any pdf editor like Okular, I can't get the accents. However, in the body of the text of a LO-Writer document, or even in a browser like Chrome or Firefox, there is no problem. I write in Spanish and Catalan.

locale command displays:

LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=es_ES:ca:en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_TIME=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_NAME=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=ca_ES.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

I tried to remove the package libreoffice-kde as suggested at https://askubuntu.com/a/471600/1549967 but nothing has happened.

How can I solve this issue?

Many thanks in advance!

EDIT: In order to clarify how I do to enter a comment in a LO-Writer document, these are the steps:

from a blank LO-Writer document, I write a text, several paragraphs, in Catalan for example, since it includes more types of accents.
anywhere in the text where I want to insert a comment, right-click and select "Insert comment"
I write words with both acute and grave accent marks, in Catalan, as well as words with umlauts. (E.g. paciència, assistència, són, aquí, qüestió).

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4/7/23, 10:33 AM

please [edit] your question to indicate the steps you are taking to insert a comment

ChanganAuto

4/7/23, 2:47 PM

Do you have standard Spanish keyboard layout or the "dead keys" variant? I suspect you have the former so you may try with the variant.

Pere Ferriol

4/7/23, 4:59 PM

Not sure if I'm doing in a wright way, in order to get my current keybord layout, `$ setxkbmap -query` gives `rules: evdev model: pc105 layout: es,es,es variant: ,cat,` and `$ cat /etc/default/keyboard` gives `XKBLAYOUT=es BACKSPACE=guess`

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EN: Why I cannot write accent marks in the comments of the documents, both from LibreOffice and from any pdf editor?

TH: เหตุใดฉันจึงไม่สามารถเขียนเครื่องหมายเน้นเสียงในความคิดเห็นของเอกสาร ทั้งจาก LibreOffice และจากโปรแกรมแก้ไข PDF ใดๆ

RO: De ce nu pot scrie accente în comentariile documentelor, atât din LibreOffice, cât și din orice editor pdf?

RU: Почему я не могу ставить знаки ударения в комментариях к документам, как из LibreOffice, так и из любого pdf-редактора?

VI: Tại sao tôi không thể viết dấu trọng âm trong nhận xét của tài liệu, cả từ LibreOffice và từ bất kỳ trình chỉnh sửa pdf nào?

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