Hi Chris, maybe I need another hint to some obvious things. :^) On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:25:15AM +0200, Chris Halls 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
This works fine from the shell, where I can set the appropriate environment variables (LANG, LC_ALL). The problem arises in kde, when OOo is invoked from a menu. This obviously does not honor the user settings and thus OOo sets LOCALEOO to the default of en-US. I can change this by creating the file /etc/openoffice1.1/openoffice.conf (which is read by the wrapper script /usr/bin/openoffice1.1) and putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (example) into it. But this is no real solution as it changes systemwide to another default. The user locale settings are honoured when I change the first line of /usr/bin/openoffice1.1 to #!/bin/bash --login This reads in the user environment, which #!/bin/sh doesn't. I don't expect this to be a clean solution. BTW, the same problem appears with the user setting of umask. I have a umask of 007 on shell level but OOo creates files with -rw-r--r--. Any solution? Helmut -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Helmut Lichtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel. +49 (0)5034/871-128 Institut für Tierzucht 31535 Neustadt Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------
