Bug#208733: Bug still here
Le Tue 7/10/2003, Chris Halls disait
> retitle 208733 openoffice.org: UI language uses LC_CTYPE in preference to LC_MESSAGES/LANG
> merge 210580 208733
> tags 208733 + confirmed
> thanks
>
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:27:08AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> > I upgraded, and now I get a french interface : I want the
> > *english* one. There is no reason for me to get a french interface
> > with the following locale setting (output of "locale")
> [...]
> > LANG=POSIX
> > LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
> > LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
>
> Thank you for actually clarifying what the bug was that you reported. It
> was not clear from your original report what your problem was. Please do
> not be surprised if we have trouble understanding your bugreport when your
> report does not tell us exactly what is going on - the word 'translated' in
> the title implies a problem in a translation, not in the selected language.
>
> Now that you have provided more information, we can see that two reports
> have been filed about this problem.
>
> OOo does not currently have the ability to read more than one locale value
> from the environment. This is the real problem. Given LANG and LC_CTYPE,
> it will use LC_CTYPE for its locale information.
I was just in the process of merging. However having my menus half in
english and half in french is very disturbing (e.g. I get a "Save" and
a "Enregistrer Sous" menu entries ("Enregistrer Sous" is french for
"save as").
--
Erwan
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