[users] Language Failure

2006-02-07 Thread Nick Norton
OpenOffice refuses to accept English (UK) as the spelling language, it defaults to English (usa). Each word that is checked is check with the wrong language. Is there a way to fix this problem, or should I remove OpenOffice and use a package from a different company that supports the English lang

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-07 Thread Dave Barton
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:03 +, Nick Norton wrote: > OpenOffice refuses to accept English (UK) as the spelling language, it > defaults to English (usa). Each word that is checked is check with the > wrong language. Is there a way to fix this problem, Yes, all it takes is for a user to request

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-07 Thread Daniel Kasak
Dave Barton wrote: At the moment your packages does not support English it only supports an american version of the English language. Your presumption is incorrect. OOo supports several flavours of English, including UK. That's debatable. There are some long-standing bugs with language

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-07 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On 08/02/2006, at 5:02 PM, Dave Barton wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:58 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: Dave Barton wrote: At the moment your packages does not support English it only supports an american version of the English language. Your presumption is incorrect. OOo supports several f

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-07 Thread Dave Barton
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:58 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: > >> At the moment your packages does not support English it only supports > >> an american version of the English language. > >> > > > > Your presumption is incorrect. OOo supports several flavours of English, > > inc

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Nick Norton
Thank you for your reply, Your suggestions FAILED to resolve the Language Failure. And as such the product will now be remove from all my machines and all my employees will no longer be permitted to use such badly designed software. Please note that I do believe this to be far superior to any mi

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi Nick, as you're not subscribed to this list, you have missed the following answer: Jallan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Possibly this is the difficulty you have encountered. Language is now specified in styles to allow individual paragraphs and individual portions of paragraphs to have dif

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Daniel Kasak
Dave Barton wrote: OK, so our experience is very different. I have not had any major difficulty setting up non-US English language options (several flavours - currently using Australian) for OOo 2.x.x You're doing better than us. Windows or Linux? I've had no problem with the Windows version,

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Dave Barton
As you are not subscribed to this list, you will not have seen the following reply to your message: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:20 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On 09/02/2006, at 12:44 AM, Nick Norton wrote: > > > Thank you for your reply, > > > > Your suggestions FAILED to resolve the Language F

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Dave Barton
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:29 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: > > OK, so our experience is very different. I have not had any major > > difficulty setting up non-US English language options (several > flavours - currently using Australian) for OOo 2.x.x > > > You're doing better th

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On 09/02/2006, at 12:44 AM, Nick Norton wrote: Thank you for your reply, Your suggestions FAILED to resolve the Language Failure. And as such the product will now be remove from all my machines and all my employees will no longer be permitted to use such badly designed software. Please

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:29 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Dave Barton wrote: > > OK, so our experience is very different. I have not had any major > > difficulty setting up non-US English language options (several flavours > > - currently using Australian) for OOo 2.x.x > > > You're doing better

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Daniel Kasak
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: How about explaining how you have attempted to set up your copy. I get the sense that you have missed a step. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40240 I don't mean to be abrupt, but I'm quite satisfied that I have completed all the required steps,

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Ross Johnson
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:20 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On 09/02/2006, at 12:44 AM, Nick Norton wrote: > > > Thank you for your reply, > > > > Your suggestions FAILED to resolve the Language Failure. And as such > > the product will now be remove from all my machines and all my > > employe

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Ross Johnson
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:58 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > How about explaining how you have attempted to set up your copy. I get > > the sense that you have missed a step. > > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40240 > > I don't mean to be abrupt

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Daniel Kasak
Ross Johnson wrote: Well, I'm running OOo2.0.1 on Linux and it works fine after downloading the en-AU dictionary. If you want to tell me exactly what you're doing from the point after you install OOo2 I'll try to reproduce it. Don't direct me to the bug report though - it's too long and confused

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:58 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > How about explaining how you have attempted to set up your copy. I get > > the sense that you have missed a step. > > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=40240 > > I don't mean to be abrupt,

Re: [users] Language Failure

2006-02-08 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On 09/02/2006, at 11:55 AM, Ross Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 09:58 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: How about explaining how you have attempted to set up your copy. I get the sense that you have missed a step. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?i