[Debian-uk] Fwd: Debian Bug #300328 - English locale bug in OpenOffice

[Neil Williams]

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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:28:11 +0100
Simon Waters <simon@technocool.net> wrote:

> Daniel Glassey wrote:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D300328
>=20
> I have Debian Sid (unstable), with OpenOffice and the UK English UTF8
> locale the submitter has.
>=20
> To get consistent UK spelling in OpenOffice you have to go to;
>=20
> "Tools>Options>Language Settings" and set the "English (UK)" as the
> default language setting for documents.
>=20
> I guess if you choose this (or any UK) locale in the Debian installer
> the correct behaviour would be for OpenOffice (or its installer) to
> notice, and use this information, so I think the behaviour is a "bug".=20

? This is the opposite of the behaviour that I found - OOo picked up
the en_GB locale as a default without any intervention from myself. It
was only when investigating this bug that I even went into
Tools->Options->Language Settings.

> I
> doubt it is a UK locale specific bug, it would need someone with a
> non-English default locale to confirm this.

Or just change the locale at the login manager. (May need some tweaks
in System->Administration->Login Window in Gnome or the equivalent
under other window managers.)

> It isn't necessary to repeatedly change this setting as the submitter
> describes, if the steps above are followed. So it may not be as severe
> as believed.

It could also be related to how the locale is set - some methods
(like .xsession or .bashrc) are incomplete. GnuCash is very sensitive
to these things, I would be interested to know if gnucash picks up
pounds sterling as the default locale currency (without needing to
override it) on systems where this bug apppears in Ooo. (No matter
which currency is set by the user, gnucash still shows the currency
that has been detected as an option.)

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