Hi!
As seen in Bug#173067, help doesn't work if LANG is not en_US. (In fact,
it is in english or unavailable if openoffice.org-help-en isn't
installed)
Diffs to the current openoffice wrapper to make it work again are
attached.
For curious people, here are some explanations.
Some tests with the following packages installed:
ii openoffice.org 1.0.1-6
ii openoffice.org-bin 1.0.1-6
ii openoffice.org-debian-files 1.0.1-6+5
ii openoffice.org-help-en 1.0.1-6
ii openoffice.org-help-fr 0.20020222-2
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en 1.0.1-6
ii openoffice.org-l10n-fr 1.0.1-6
ii openoffice.org-spellcheck-fr-fr 20020727-2
en_US and fr_FR locales are supported on my system.
tests started with: LANG=??_?? ~/.openoffice/1.0.1/soffice
LANG ooLocale UI help
fr_FR <ooLocale/> fr en
en_US <ooLocale/> en en
fr_FR fr-FR fr fr
en_US fr-FR fr fr
fr_FR fr-XX fr fr
en_US fr-XX fr fr
fr_FR fr fr fr
en_US fr fr fr
fr_FR fr_FR fr fr
en_US fr_FR en fr
If I remove the openoffice.org-help-en package:
LANG ooLocale UI help
fr_FR <ooLocale/> fr unavailable
en_US <ooLocale/> en unavailable
If I remove the openoffice.org-l10n-en package:
LANG ooLocale UI help
fr_FR <ooLocale/> fr unavailable
en_US startup failed with error message: Application ErrorAbandon
As a conclusion:
- the short term solution for the debian openoffice wrapper seems to be to
set ooLocale acording to LANG on each startup.
- UI language and Help language are both determined from the value of the
ooLocale key, but not exactly in the same way.
(Hey Chris, didn't you write in a previous mail "This behaviour seems a little
odd. I wonder if it is really intended to be like that in OOo?" I wonder
too ...)
A final note: I noticed that on Windows, the french version of openoffice
comes with ooLocale set to fr (not fr-FR, ...). I didn't try to cut LANG
to retain the first 2 characters because I expected problems asian
locales. However, with western languages, I think it would be OK.
Lucien.
*** /usr/bin/openoffice 2002-12-09 16:29:01.000000000 +0100
--- openoffice 2002-12-16 10:35:42.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 81,86 ****
--- 81,106 ----
SAL_FONTPATH_USER=${SAL_FONTPATH_USER:-"$DEBOO_FONTPATH"}
export SAL_FONTPATH_USER
+ ## search LOCALE
+ if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ]; then
+ LOCALE="$LC_ALL"
+ # OOo doesn't understand LC_ALL, so set LANG
+ LANG="$LC_ALL"
+ elif [ -n "$LANG" ]; then
+ LOCALE="$LANG"
+ elif [ -n "$LC_MESSAGES" ]; then
+ LOCALE="$LC_MESSAGES"
+ LANG="$LC_MESSAGES"
+ else
+ LOCALE="en_US"
+ fi
+
+ # Set locale to en_US if locale is C
+ if [ "x$LOCALE" = "xC" ] ; then LOCALE="en_US"; fi
+
+ LOCALEOO=`echo $LOCALE | sed 's/_/-/'`
+
+
##
## install OO for this user if needed
##
***************
*** 111,117 ****
mv $SETUPFILE $SETUPFILE.tmp
# Set ooLocale to nothing in $SETUPFILE. The UI language is handled by
LANG.
! # Not having ooLocale at all defaults to en_US
cat $SETUPFILE.tmp | \
perl -e "while (<>) { /<Office>/ && print \" <L10N>\n <ooLocale
cfg:type=\\\"string\\\"/>\n </L10N>\n\";print \$_;}" > \
$SETUPFILE
--- 131,137 ----
mv $SETUPFILE $SETUPFILE.tmp
# Set ooLocale to nothing in $SETUPFILE. The UI language is handled by
LANG.
! # A goog value for ooLocale will be set before starting.
cat $SETUPFILE.tmp | \
perl -e "while (<>) { /<Office>/ && print \" <L10N>\n <ooLocale
cfg:type=\\\"string\\\"/>\n </L10N>\n\";print \$_;}" > \
$SETUPFILE
***************
*** 146,175 ****
## Previous dead installation?
[ -d $HOME/.openoffice/user ] && echo "Warning: you have a user settings
directory from 1.0.0 in ~/.openoffice/user - this is no longer used"
##
## That's it. Launch the beast (with the given args)
##
- if [ -n "$LC_ALL" ]; then
- LOCALE="$LC_ALL"
- # OOo doesn't understand LC_ALL, so set LANG
- LANG="$LC_ALL"
- elif [ -n "$LANG" ]; then
- LOCALE="$LANG"
- elif [ -n "$LC_MESSAGES" ]; then
- LOCALE="$LC_MESSAGES"
- LANG="$LC_MESSAGES"
- else
- LOCALE="en_US"
- fi
-
- # Set locale to en-US if locale is C
- if [ "x$LOCALE" = "xC" ] ; then LOCALE="en_US"; fi
-
LANG=$LOCALE
export LANG
exec "$OOHOME/soffice" "$@"
## Changelog
# 12/03 challs
# * Add Debian font paths to user font path
# 11/14 saviot
--- 166,190 ----
## Previous dead installation?
[ -d $HOME/.openoffice/user ] && echo "Warning: you have a user settings
directory from 1.0.0 in ~/.openoffice/user - this is no longer used"
+ ## Change the ooLocale key in SETUPFILE acording to LOCALE
+ SETUPFILE="$OOHOME/user/config/registry/instance/org/openoffice/Setup.xml"
+ mv $SETUPFILE $SETUPFILE.tmp
+ cat $SETUPFILE.tmp | \
+ sed 's#<ooLocale[^/]*/[^>]*>#<ooLocale
cfg:type="string">'$LOCALEOO'</ooLocale>#'\
+ > $SETUPFILE
+ rm -f $SETUPFILE.tmp
+
##
## That's it. Launch the beast (with the given args)
##
LANG=$LOCALE
export LANG
exec "$OOHOME/soffice" "$@"
## Changelog
+ # 12/15 saviot
+ # * Change ooLocale at startup in Setup.xml
+ # <ooLocale cfg:type="string"/> doesn't work for help.
# 12/03 challs
# * Add Debian font paths to user font path
# 11/14 saviot
