dot on numeric pad shows as comma

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

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

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

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

Thanks for the update.

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

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

I have this bug since intrepid until lucid.

Me too. Still an issue on lucid.

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

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

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