got OOo in french !
Hello,
I've got OOo runing in french.
For that, you have to:
1) extract a bunch of resources in /usr/lib/openoffice/program/resource/
2) edit some config files in ~/.openoffice
The attached version of /usr/bin/openoffice can do the 2) automatically.
Here is how it works:
- I add a file ~/.openoffice/lang.debian containing the locale for which it is
configured for now (defaulting to en-US when not found).
- then, each time openoffice is launched, it compares the actual locale to
the one found in this file. If changed, it updates the needed config files.
- You have to change 3 files to remplace all occurence of the old local to
the new one:
~/.openoffice/instdb.ins
~/.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml
(you may have to create the second one if it does not exist, and add a
L10N section in the third one)
- obviously put the new locale in ~/.openoffice/lang.debian
That's it. It works like that. If the locale is not installed (ie, if step 1
is not done), OOo falls back to english gracefully.
The next problem to tackle is the generation of resources. For now, I
extracted manually the files from a french installer. That's quite annoying.
I have a build runing, I asked to build all languages, I'll see if it works,
and then, I'll build separate .deb from theses resources.
You need perl to have this script running (a small part was too hard in sed,
and I don't speak awk).
Last point, the script also unset SESSION_MANAGER before calling soffice, it
will solve my problems with the gnome session manager.
Enjoy, Mt.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Wrapper script for openoffice
#
# (C) Peter 'Nidd' Novodvorsky, 2001.
# (C) Martin 'empty' Quinson, 2002.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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#
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if [ ! -d ~/.openoffice ]; then
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup -R:/etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf
fi
# Search the right locale
if [ -e ~/.openoffice/lang.debian ] ; then
OLDLOCALE=`cat ~/.openoffice/lang.debian`
else
OLDLOCALE="en-US"
fi
LOCALE="$LC_ALL"
if [ -z $LOCALE ] ; then LOCALE="$LC_MESSAGES"; fi
if [ -z $LOCALE ] ; then LOCALE="$LANG"; fi
if [ -z $LOCALE ] ; then LOCALE="en-US"; fi
if [ "$LOCALE" != "$OLDLOCALE" ] ; then
# Change instdb.ins
cp ~/.openoffice/instdb.ins ~/.openoffice/instdb.ins.$OLDLOCALE
sed "s/>$OLDLOCALE</>$LOCALE</" ~/.openoffice/instdb.ins.$OLDLOCALE > ~/.openoffice/instdb.ins
# Create Linguistic.xml if don't exists
if [ ! -e .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml.$OLDLOCALE ] ; then
cat >.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml.tmp <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Linguistic state="modified" cfg:package="org.openoffice.Office" xmlns="http://openoffice.org/2000/registry/components/Linguistic"; xmlns:cfg="http://openoffice.org/2000/registry/instance"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance";>
<General>
<DefaultLocale cfg:type="string">en-US</DefaultLocale>
</General>
</Linguistic>
EOF
sed "s/>en-US</>$OLDLOCALE</" .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml.tmp > \
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml.$OLDLOCALE
rm .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml.tmp
fi # Linguistic.xml does not exist
# change Linguistic.xml
sed "s/>$OLDLOCALE</>$LOCALE</" .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml.$OLDLOCALE > \
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Office/Linguistic.xml
# Change Setup.xml
if grep -q '<ooLocale cfg:type' .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml ; then
cp .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml \
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml.$OLDLOCALE
sed "s/>$OLDLOCALE</>$LOCALE</" .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml.$OLDLOCALE > \
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml
else # ooLocale entry does not exists in Setup.xml
cp .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml \
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml.tmp
cat .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml.tmp | \
perl -e "while (<>) { /<Office>/ && print \"<L10N>\n<ooLocale cfg:type=\\\"string\\\">$LOCALE</ooLocale>\n</L10N>\n\";print $_;}" > \
.openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml
rm .openoffice/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml.tmp
fi # change Setup.xml
echo "$LOCALE" > ~/.openoffice/lang.debian
fi # LOCALE != OLDLOCALE
unset SESSION_MANAGER
~/.openoffice/soffice
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