Re: [libreoffice-website] Wrong install language from the installer

[Andras Timar <timar74@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2012/6/17 Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Marc Paré wrote on 2012-06-16 23:11:
>
>> FYI, we got a report from a user that he downloaded what he expected an
>> EN version of LO, but, when he got to the install stage, it was all in
>> DE. He did have some of this box labelled as DE but he had purposefully
>> downloaded the EN version.[1]
>>
>> You may want to read the thread just in case there is a way to fix the
>> problem, or, it may not be fixable at all.
>
>
>>
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/21409
>
>
>
>
> thanks for bringing this to our attention! Doesn't sound like a website
> problem, because the installer is multilanguage, so the right file seems to
> be served. It looks more like a problem in the Windows installer itself.
> Cc'ing Andras, who is working on that IMHO.
>

Text of download page is partially responsible for some confusion. For
example, when I go to https://www.libreoffice.org/download/, it says
LibreOffice Windows, version 3.5.4, Hungarian. So I may think that I'm
going to download a Hungarian installer, It is not clear, that I will
dowload a multi language installer. I think this fact should be
emphasized.

Windows installer automatically starts on the language of the regional
settings of Windows. It is suitable for 99% of users. This is a
WIndows feature, not ours. There is a related bug report in Bugzilla:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51038 The question is, if
it is possible to start installer in English without changing regional
settings to English. I don't have the answer yet. It is easy to force
installer to start in any language, but English seems to be special.
Interesting. :)

Best regards,
Andras

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