Re: locale and OpenOffice

On 08/31/2008 05:13 AM, Tony Arnold wrote:

verwertungsprozess wrote:
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

In Writer, you can right click on the ruler at the top and the side of
the document and select metric units. Does that help?


Thanks for that! I'd forgotten all about that option.

verwertungsprozess can also easily set the locale in OOo:
Tools|Options|Language Settings|Languages|Locale setting.


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