Dotan Cohen wrote:
Where is there an outline of which locales provide which formatting? I
have gone through quite a bit of the docs as support.openoffice.org
but I find nothing.
Any number format dialog in this office suite shows all the built-in
formattings with format codes for all the built-in locales and for the
userdefined ones.
Alternatively, you may decide to use the "Default" locale, which defaults to
the same "en-US style" on every US American system (12/31/1999 and
1,234.99), the same Hebrew style on every Hebrew system (31/12/1999 and
1,234.99) and the same Swedish style on every Swedish system (1999-12-31 and
1 234,99).
Yes, I would like this very much. In fact, I have set them as Default.
However, this is not producing the for specified in my locale.
It should work.
The office user may set his/her preferred default locale in the general`
locale settings or let OOo read one distinct locale from the system's
general language.
I think that I see. I set the Language Settings -> Languages -> Local
Setting as Default, and it reads LANG, then formats everything (paper
size, time, measurement) as if they were the same as that of LANG as
well. I have two comments on this:
1) The other locale settings should not be assumed to be the same,
they are configurable separately for a reason.
2) It does not work. I still get US date formats, not my locale's date format.
Oh, well. Again, I assumed that it should work like this.
OK, let's see.
I set my application locale to "Default" and close the office.
$> LANG=he_IL.utf8 soffice -calc
My /usr/bin/soffice points to Sun's compilation of OOo 3.1.1 in /opt/
(process:17312): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
(soffice:17312): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Anyway, the office starts with a new spread in some English GUI.
I type 1/12/2009 which gives the right value for this months 1st of
December in a date format that looks like the British one I typed into
the cell.
The cell formatting dialog shows number format language "Default" which
obviously defaults to Hebrew since the date section offers me a lot of
date formats that look interesting for me as a goy.
OK, close this and try another flavour.:
LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -calc
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale ""
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -calc points to Ubuntu's compilation
of OOo 3.0.1. This behaves in the same way as the previously tested Sun
version.
Sorry, I can not reproduce the misbehaviour you have outlined, but I
found another reason why OOo uses it's own set of locale options
independently from the system: My system is not prepared for this locale
as the error messages indicate, but OOo offers all the needed options to
write Hebrew documents (if I could).
Greetings,
Andreas
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