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hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Libreoffice 7.0.4: no more â, ê, ë, î, û, ü...

Yesterday I received an automatic update of Libreoffice from 7.0.2 to 7.0.4 (not sure if it was 7.0.2 or 7.0.3).
Now, accented characters that need two keystrokes (â, ê, ë, î, û, ü...) do no more appear, as if I didn't type anything.
I use a French-Belgian keyboard.
Obviously a bug in Libreoffice, because they still work with Kate, with this forum, and so on.

My question are:
- how can I downgrade to 7.0.2 and prevent future upgrades?
- should I uninstall and install from a downloaded package instead of install from repositories?

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Q4OS machine: Samsung R519 - Pentium T4200 2.0 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: Libreoffice 7.0.4: no more â, ê, ë, î, û, ü...

Ad 1. Yes, the update of Libreoffice in Debian Bullseye has really took place recently, but only a minor one, version 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u6 -> 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u7
The old version is still present in the "http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main" repository, while the new one is coming from "http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main" . So you could pin the older version 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u6 creating the file "/etc/apt/preferences.d/pin50-libreoffice" with content:

Package: libreoffice
Pin: version 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u6
Pin-Priority: 999

Now remove the installed version:
$ sudo apt --purge autoremove *libreoffice*
and install the pinned one from the Q4OS software centre.

Ad 2. We wouldn't recommend that as it could be time consuming and even mess the system.

Anyway, before any action, we would recommend to try to cleanup LO user configuration  and try it once again within fresh environment. The most simple way to test it, would be create a new user and run LO in his profile.

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: Libreoffice 7.0.4: no more â, ê, ë, î, û, ü...

We have tested the new Libreoffice in Q4OS Plasma with the French-Belgium keyboard layout and it seems it works fine. We are able to type at least the "ë" character.

hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 519

Re: Libreoffice 7.0.4: no more â, ê, ë, î, û, ü...

Thanks for your response.

1. With a new profile, the problem does not appear, everything normal.

2. With my usual profile, I renamed the fodser /home/laurent/.configkde/libreoffice/4/user/ to user.bak and the problem was still there...

3. I reminded that, since the last time I used Libreoffice, I made a modfication to my System Configuration (I use Plasma):
   Customize (free translation from French) -> Regional Settings -> Formats -> Time -> "France - Français", while other formats are "Belgique - Français" (see atached screenshot).
   If I reset it to "Belgique - Français", logout, logon, the problem has disappeard.
   If I set it to "France - Français" again, logout, logon, the problem is there anew.
   I think it is the way to reproduce the issue.

The reason why I use "France - Français" is to have time formats in Dolphin displaying always 2 digits for hours (00, 01, ..., 09).

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