Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office localization for multinational work environment

Thanks to you all dear friends for your valuable comments.

The problem I stated was independent from the operating system (windows 
or Linux behaviors were just the same) and I am using English version of 
LO 3.2.

I was looking a windows - MS Office way of handling localization and 
customization of predefined special symbols for thousand separator or 
decimal point symbol or so.

My conclusions after all discussions and contributions:

1. LO is not referring to system settings (-such as decimal point 
character or thousand separator character). (P.S. To Developers: 
Difficult to understand, why not?)

2. There is no way to customize those symbols/characters. (P.S. to 
Developers: More difficult to understand, why not?)

3. The only way is to choose from pre-defined locale settings which 
suits best. (P.S. Default US-EN suits me best (-not perfect) for all 
other aspects and I will continue to use that set)

4. There is  only one possibility to alter the predefined characters and 
it is providing a new dictionary file. (P.S. I have no idea how to do 
it? Where and how should I start to study the issue? )

Thanks again.
Cevad.


On 03/28/2011 09:55 PM, Glenn wrote:
> I've seen issues like this concerning language and other
> cultural standards come up before. I find TDF's support
> of languages other than English pretty good.
>
> So let me cut to to chase. I have a friend who is
> involved in writing multi-lang. program interfaces,
> including German and he says that, in most cases,
> all you have to do is provide a dictionary file that
> suits your purpose and have the application reference
> it.
>
> The app will make the accommodation for you.
>
> And let's get down to the language of business:
> for now, at least, it's still mostly English.
>
> C'est la vie!
>
> On 3/28/11 1:53 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > mån 2011-03-28 klockan 18:25 +0300 skrev Cevad OZTUG:
> > > :)
> > > > Select the appropriate language (the language that makes use of that
> > > > number format you are talking about) in your character settings in
> > > your
> > > > styles and/or in your document.
> > >
> > > Could you please advice which one is this?
> > > Which language that has your number format or what?
> > >
> > > In Calc, select all cells → Format cells… → Numbers → Language
> > > Select the language option thing and use your arrow keys (↑ and ↓) to
> > > view them one by one. Look at the example field (the one in the middle).
> > >
> > > The following languages seems to use the ”1'234.12” format:
> > > French (Schweiz)
> > > German (Liechtenstein)
> > > German (Schweiz)
> > > Italian (Schweiz)
> > >
> > > Seems to be a Schweiz/Liechtenstein thing…

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