https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168687
--- Comment #8 from Regina Henschel <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Telesto from comment #5) > "Locale" > It has not much of a purpose, it seems. It activates the 'Options' drop down > in very limited number of cases, it seems (like Japanese). Sorting rule > appears to pre-defined in most cases, without any control. Except picking a > different locale, compared to actual locale. How it applies, or if it > related to natural sort, no clue.. "locale" includes a set of sorting rules. Among them are decimal separator, calendar, handling of umlauts and accents. Some locals have more than on official rule, e.g. German has two rules in its DIN 5007. Even the order of identical words might depend on locale, see bug 168225 for example. Sorting depends on locale, not on the language of the cell content or language settings in cell style. If you do not choose a locale in the Sort 'dialog', then the global setting from Tools > Options > Languages and Locale is used. The 'Sort' dialog has an entry of form "Default - (...)" in that case. The global setting has the disadvantage, that it is only stored in your user profile. So when you have created a sorting with German locale and someone in USA opens the document then sorting might be different. When you choose the locale in the 'Sort' dialog, this information is stored in the document so that both persons use the same locale for sorting. I have no idea, how such information can be condensed to a label. It is too long even for a tooltip. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
