On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:25:15 +0200 Chris Halls <chris@thehalls.de> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:32, Johannes Graumann wrote: > > > Am running Debian Sid and have installed their 1.1.0-1, including > > > several language support packages for my polyglot wife. Now I am at > > > a loss of how to make ooffice work such that she can choose between > > > Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, French, German or English at startup. I > > > have searched the google archives for this but haven't come across > > > anything... > > But you didn't look in README.Debian... > > Language support > ================ > You can get foreign language support by installing the > openoffice.org-l10n-<lang> package for your language. You will also > need the > 'locales' package installed. The user interface language is selected > according > to your locale(1) settings. > > To change the user interface language for all users, run > > dpkg-reconfigure locales > > To change the language for just one user, you must arrange for the > LC_MESSAGES > or LANG environment variable to be set. You can list all available > locales > with the command 'locale -a'. > > For example, to run OpenOffice in German from the command line: > > LANG=de_DE openoffice Well ... I came across that and did the following: - dpkg-reconfigure locales --> generating ar_LB.ISO-8859-6 and ar_LB.UTF-8 additionally to my English ones. - apt-get install xfonts-intl-arabic - LANG=ar_LB openoffice But this leads to: I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "ar_LB" What am I missing? Joh
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