Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office localization for multinational work environment
Thanks again to Johnny, as you stated it solves partially the problem. Unfortunately our set of definitions are not fitting German (Leichtenstein) perfectly. So in a single document we have to define several cells with different local formats. (i.e. To see Eng. names of the days, or usd symbol for the currency and etc.) But for sure Johnny's suggestion is very useful and works for particular needs. Thanks again. *Cevad OZTUG* ** On 03/31/2011 12:49 AM, NoOp wrote: On 03/29/2011 04:25 AM, Cevad OZTUG wrote: Thanks to you all dear friends for your valuable comments. The problem I stated was independent from the operating system (windows or Linux behaviors were just the same) and I am using English version of LO 3.2. I was looking a windows - MS Office way of handling localization and customization of predefined special symbols for thousand separator or decimal point symbol or so. My conclusions after all discussions and contributions: 1. LO is not referring to system settings (-such as decimal point character or thousand separator character). (P.S. To Developers: Difficult to understand, why not?) 2. There is no way to customize those symbols/characters. (P.S. to Developers: More difficult to understand, why not?) 3. The only way is to choose from pre-defined locale settings which suits best. (P.S. Default US-EN suits me best (-not perfect) for all other aspects and I will continue to use that set) 4. There is only one possibility to alter the predefined characters and it is providing a new dictionary file. (P.S. I have no idea how to do it? Where and how should I start to study the issue? ) For the interim, why not try as Johnny suggested? Tools|Options|Language Settings|Languages|Local setting: German (Liechtenstein)|Default Currency: set to your choice. Then in Calc: Format|Cells|Number: -1'234.12|OK Your example number then shows as 123'456'789.00 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office localization for multinational work environment
Thanks for the instructions below. I wondered what the best way to do it for Linux [Ubuntu 10.10]. Most people I deal with for multi languages use Windows, and that is easy[er]. On 03/30/2011 08:01 AM, kennedyd wrote: hello cevad, We had a similar problem when we were installing LibreOffice 3.3 on linux. We work in English, Dutch, German and French. We found that the following method worked for us. 1. We installed a base system using the English GB option. This means that the menus and default dictionaries, local settings and so forth are in British English. (We are Europeans. You can choose any available language as the base system.) So we downloaded and installed: 1.the basic US tar.gz file 2.the en-GB language pack tar.gz file 3. the en-GB help pack tar.gz file as instructed by the 'Installing LibreOffice 3.3 on Linux' documentation. Then to install the other three languages dictionaries and local settings for numbers, dates and so forth we installed ONLY the 'dict' binary from within each language pack. We followed the method described below. (We use SuSE and Debian distributions here. For the Debian and its derivative distributions substitute 'deb' for 'rpm' and 'DEB' for 'RPM' in the examples below.) 1. Download ONLY the langpacks for the languages and local settings you require. 2. Open a terminal as root. 3. Copy the downloaded language pack(s) to your choice of installation directory. For example to install the German dictionaries and local settings: cd /opt cp /home/kd/Downloads/LibO_3.3.2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-rpm_de.tar.gz . 4. Unpack the language pack(s) tar -xvf LibO_3.3.2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-rpm_de.tar.gz . 5. Change to the directory LibO... cd LibO_3.3.2rc2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-rpm_de/ 6. Then cd to either the RPM subdirectory or in the case of a debian distribution to the DEB subdirectory. cd RPM 7. List the files within and look for the 'dict' binary in the list. Then 'rpm' or 'dpkg' this file only. rpm -Uvh libreoffice3-dict-de-DE-3.3.2-202.x86_64.rpmlt;in the case of the SuSE distribution.gt; 8. Repeat the steps 1 to 8 for any other languages and settings you wish to install. Launch LibreOffice and open the 'Tools'|'Options...'Language Settings'Languages'. You should now be able to set the Local setting to your prefered location. For example: Germany (Germany) You should also now be able to set your language setting for the documents to you choice of language. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libre-Office-localization-for-multinational-work-environment-tp2740979p2753332.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
