locale and OpenOffice
- From: verwertungsprozess <verwertungsprozess@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:21:02 +0200
Hi,
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 because I prefer using
applications in English language. Nevertheless I want to use
international standard formats for things like dates and measurements.
Thus I set LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 because with this setting Thunderbird
shows all dates as yyyy-mm-dd instead of mm/dd/yyyy.
Now I want OpenOffice to use the metric system (i.e. centimeters
instead of inches). I tried
$ LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.utf8 openoffice
and
$ LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.utf8 openoffice
but OpenOffice still uses inches.
Even if I use
$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 openoffcie
but then OpenOffice uses German language but still inches for measurements :(
So it looks to me as if OpenOffice wouldn't use the system locale
settings at all to determine the measurement units to use. On the
other hands I couldn't find any setting in the preferences to set the
measurement units. But I saw on a completely German Ubuntu OpenOffice
using the metric system.
Could anyone give me a hint how to force OpenOffice to use the metric
system for measurements?
Cheers,
--
Moritz Reiter
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