<font color="#333333" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Hi there!</font></font></font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333"><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I just got almost the same problem you mentioned in your post. I'm working with an Spanish keyboard on Ubuntu though.</font></font></font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">You must have a workaround (it's been a few months since your question to the list), but for those who come in the future this could be useful:</font></div>
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<font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">For me, the solution has been to force the locale to the default English distribution in the terminal before the execution of my VTK program.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">You can do that (for example) on a very simple bash script to launch your program:</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">------------------------------</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">#!/bin/bash</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">export LC_ALL=C</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">/launch/your/app/here</font></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="verdana, sans-serif">Good luck! :)</font></div>
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