Bug#384774: Request: system-wide locale setting for OpenOffice.org

[Jo�o Batista <joao_mn_batista@hotmail.com>]

Package: openoffice
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice to allow the system manager to specify which 
locale to use for OpenOffice.org without having to do a LANG= 
which would affect all other applications. Preferably, this setting 
should also survive a package update.

The choice of LANG= is relevant for e.g. keyboard recognition. 
Case in point: with $COUNTRY and $LANG unset, ooffice (vis. writer) 
doesn't recognize the keyboard setting (doesn't check X?). However, 
invoking ooffice with "LANG=pt_PT ooffice" allows the usage with the 
specified keyboard locale.

IMHO, it would make sense to include some directive in a configuration 
file in /etc/openoffice to allow the choice of locale for ooffice, e.g.
in /etc/openoffice/sofficerc. If in a Perl script, the following seems 
to do the job:

  $ENV{SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN} = "pt_PT";

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.11-kanotix-2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)