Enable german menus

[Jan Schulz <muelleimer@usenet.katzien.de>]

Hallo!

I can't bring OOo to show german menus. I remember, that this was
possible some time ago.

It seems that the wrapper does all the nessesary things to enable
german locales (layer file has de-DE, all locale environment variables
in /usr/bin/openoffice are set to de_DE@euro) and the packages are
installed.

/usr/bin/openoffice:
--8<---------:- snip -:---------8<---------:- snip -:---------8<--
[...]
if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ]; then
  echo "first"
  LOCALE="$LC_ALL"
  echo $LOCALE
  # OOo doesn't understand LC_ALL, so set LANG
  LANG="$LC_ALL"
  echo $LANG
elif [ -n "$LANG" ]; then
  echo "second"
  LOCALE="$LANG"
  echo $LOCALE
elif [ -n "$LC_MESSAGES" ]; then
  echo "third"
  LOCALE="$LC_MESSAGES"
  LANG="$LC_MESSAGES"
  echo $LOCALE
  echo $LANG
else
  echo "last"
  LOCALE="en_US"
  echo $LOCALE
fi
[...]
LANG=$LOCALE
export LANG
echo "starting up with $LANG"
exec "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice" "$@"
[...]
--8<---------:- snip -:---------8<---------:- snip -:---------8<--

jan@snoopy:~$ openoffice
second
de_DE@euro
de_DE@euro
de-DE

Starting configuration import into user data ..
.. importing layer file:///tmp/oooLocale.XXXXij1jVv - succeeded
starting up with de_DE@euro

jan@snoopy:~$ COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l |grep openoffice |cut -c 0-80
ii  openoffice.org                          1.1.0-2
ii  openoffice.org-bin                      1.1.0-2
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files             1.1.0-2+1
ii  openoffice.org-gnome                    1.1.0-2
ii  openoffice.org-help-de                  1.1+20030814-2
ii  openoffice.org-help-en                  1.1+20030814-3
ii  openoffice.org-hyphenation-de           20030813-1
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-de                  1.1.0-2
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en                  1.1.0-2
ii  openoffice.org-mimelnk                  1.1.0-2
rc  openoffice.org-spellcheck-de-de         20020701-6
jan@snoopy:~$ locale
LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE@euro"
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_PAPER="de_DE@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL=
jan@snoopy:~$

There is also no change after a complete 'rm -r .openoffice .sversion'
or changing the language settiongs via Tools|Options|Language
Settings|Language|Locale Settings... from 'default' to 'German'.

I didn't find anything in the BTS or on the gmane newsgroup, but I
can't believe that I'm the first to notice this. Did I miss any
settings?

Jan