Other Help Topics :: accents

Hey guys!

I'm having a little problem with my DSL. I already configure my keyboard to my language and it's all working fine. Unless 1 thing, my language, like french, have many words with accents and I can't write one single word with those . In the beggining I though that the problem was from the fonts, but now i installed OpenOffice in my system and the problem persists.

How do I solve this?