Ted Parrett wrote:
I recently installed OOo 2.0 on a Windows XP machine. My country is South Africa so I have the language set to English (South Africa) in the Windows regional settings options. For this country the decimal separator is a comma and not a decimal point. The comma is used for decimal numbers and currency. The thousands separator is a space and not a comma. This is how I have these set up in the Windows regional options dialog I am unable to get Calc 2.0 to display and recognise the PC's regional settings even when I set them up in the user defined cell format dialog. I have a tick in the check box to use regional settings for decimal separator. I notice that despite the comma being selected in the Window regional options, the OOo 2.0 Format Cell dialog shows a decimal point against the check box option ??? If I also check the tick box for thousands separator then a comma is displayed instead of a space. There is also a problem with the date format display. I set it up as DD/MM/YY but the display comes up as MM/DD/YY I have had to go back to Oo 1.1.4 until I can find a resolution for this problem. I hope there is one and this isn't a prg error that has slipped through the beta testing !!
OOo doesn't read individual items from regional settings. We read only the locale selection, and then use the data we have for that locale. The data for English (South Africa) was changed, see issue 30568 for details and links.
Niklas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
