Re: openoffice
on Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:14:54PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:07:13PM +0000, Brian Brazil wrote:
> > Oh the pain I had with this. Set up your locale properly and it will
> > work. I put enteries in /etc/security/env.conf for LC_LANG IIRC.
>
> Nearly. See locale(7).
>
> > 'C' doesn't work.
>
> ?! That's a bug.
>
> > Try 'en'.
>
> Try something that's in the first column of /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED,
> or listed by 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'.
>
> > You might need to complie locales. YMMV.
> >
> > Apparently /etc/enviroment is the right place to put this sort of
> > stuff...
>
> I much prefer putting things in shell startup files to messing with
> /etc/environment.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
Many thanks for all the very prompt replies. Have to get my head into
locale (which I've never really understood) it seems. Got to get it
working as all my recent quotes are in .sxw files.
Sigh! Thats my weekend gone.
Steve
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