Hi :) There is some discussion on the translators list about which language appears when you install LibreOffice. If you happen to live in a country where the dominant language is not your own then when you buy a computer which language is the LibreOffice installer in 1. your own language 2. the dominant language of the country 3. English (US) Obviously you can change it or add different languages but you have to understand the default language enough to be able to navigate your way around. Apparently in Japan it's not possible to buy a machine with Japanese on it. Keyboards have English as the main letter on each key but it's rare to find one that has Japanese characters even as 2nd place. There are many other reasons why a person's computer might be talking a language that is not easy or them to understand. Here is how the Ubuntu installer gets around the problem. Their installer lists languages with each name written in the language it relates to ...
My machine's "Regional settings" are set to English so i get this at first ... Ubuntu-English-v2.png <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4042985/Ubuntu-English-v2.png> However if i use the keyboard aroows to move down a bit then i get to Greek like this ... Ubuntu-ελληνικά-v2.png <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4042985/Ubuntu-%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC-v2.png> note that the installer's dialogue box increases in size to accommodate the increase in paragraph size. Of course it's a bit annoying for me because i only understand 1 language so i can't read all the different names. So if i want to install in Japanese for one of my colleagues then i don't know the difference between Chinese, Korean, Japanese or other ones that look similar to me (errr, ok i cheated and used Google translate). I think the LibreOffice installer might be even better if it could have 2 columns with the 2nd column being a listing in whichever language happens to be selected at the time. For example in the 1st screen-shot the columns would show (just restricting the English English ελληνικά Greek 日本人 Japanese but in the 2nd screen-shot they would appear as English Αγγλικά ελληνικά ελληνικά 日本人 ιαπωνικά I just wondered what other people here thought about the issue. Also i wondered if anyone else have to do IT Support for people whose 1st language is different from your own? Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Installer-Languages-tp4042985.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted