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

On 03/29/2011 04:25 AM, Cevad OZTUG wrote:
> 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? )

For the interim, why not try as Johnny suggested?

Tools|Options|Language Settings|Languages|Local setting: German
(Liechtenstein)|Default Currency: set to your choice. Then in Calc:
Format|Cells|Number: -1'234.12|OK
Your example number then shows as 123'456'789.00




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