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

Hi there,

I find a gold mine with your very useful advices. I really appreciate.
I will try and use this methodology for an other "problem" which was 
bothering us for a while now.

My original claim was a little bit different than just using 
multi-localizations.

Having several nationalities in one office is something. And thanks to 
IT guys that everybody is very flexible when they are by their own in 
front of their computer screens.But what happens when there are 10 
people in a meeting room and there is a presentation on the big screen, 
or printed reports?
3/2/2001 refers to which date (2nd March or 3rd February)?
123,456 means what (123 thousand 456 or 123456/1000)?
To avoid those kind of confusions we (as a company ground rule) 
determined a set of convention or mutual understanding. We didn't choose 
any national presentation (This is why EN-US is not fitting perfectly to 
our needs.) But we defined them by our selves.
We were inspired by international standard simple calculators. Or 
military style date and time presentations. Long story in short. Why can 
not we define our special characters freely for LibO? MS Windows and 
Pardus (-a very nice Linux distro) are letting us to do so. MS Office is 
also letting us to do so. And LibO - Castle of Freedom- is not.
In my office I am advertising LibO.But with out making this simple 
adjustment my life is very difficult. Either I should manage to change 
the whole office convention or I should suffer by seeing that the whole 
office is using MS Office for such a minor issue.

Sorry for taking that much time of yours.
I love LibO, I love Linux, I love the freedom concept. So I want to 
implement this freedom in my daily life instead of theoretical 
declarations. This is why my expectations are great from LibO.

Best wishes,
Cevad



On 03/30/2011 03:01 PM, kennedyd wrote:
> hello cevad,
>
> We had a similar problem when we were installing LibreOffice 3.3 on linux.
> We work in English, Dutch, German and French.  We found that the following
> method worked for us.
>
> 1. We installed a base system using the English GB option. This means that
> the menus and default dictionaries, local settings and so forth are in
> British English. (We are Europeans. You can choose any available language as
> the base  system.)
> So we downloaded and installed:
> 1.the basic US tar.gz file
> 2.the en-GB language pack tar.gz file
> 3. the en-GB help pack tar.gz file
> as instructed by the 'Installing LibreOffice 3.3 on Linux' documentation.
>
> Then to install  the other three languages dictionaries and local settings
> for numbers, dates and so forth we installed ONLY the 'dict' binary from
> within each language pack.
> We followed the method described below. (We use SuSE and Debian
> distributions here. For the Debian and its derivative distributions
> substitute 'deb' for 'rpm' and 'DEB' for 'RPM' in the examples below.)
>
> 1. Download ONLY the langpacks for the languages and local settings you
> require.
> 2. Open a terminal as root.
> 3. Copy the downloaded language pack(s) to your choice of installation
> directory.
> For example to install the German dictionaries and local settings:
> cd /opt
> cp /home/kd/Downloads/LibO_3.3.2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-rpm_de.tar.gz .
> 4. Unpack the language pack(s)
> tar -xvf LibO_3.3.2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-rpm_de.tar.gz .
> 5. Change to the directory LibO...
> cd LibO_3.3.2rc2_Linux_x86-64_langpack-rpm_de/
> 6. Then cd to either the RPM subdirectory or in the case of a debian
> distribution to the DEB subdirectory.
> cd RPM
> 7. List the files within and look for the 'dict' binary in the list. Then
> 'rpm' or 'dpkg' this file only.
> rpm -Uvh libreoffice3-dict-de-DE-3.3.2-202.x86_64.rpm<in the case of
> the SuSE distribution.>
> 8. Repeat the steps 1 to 8 for any other languages and settings you wish to
> install.
>
> Launch LibreOffice and open the 'Tools'|'Options...">'Language
> Settings>'Languages'.
> You should now be able to set the Local setting to your prefered location.
> For example: Germany (Germany)
> You should also now be able to set your language setting for the documents
> to you choice of language.
>
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