Issue 87390

Summary:	OOo should use the $LANGUAGE fallback variable
Product:	General	Reporter:	ccheney <ccheney>
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, mechtilde
Version:	OOo 3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux, all
URL:	https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/33294
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description ccheney 2008-03-24 22:25:58 UTC

From the Ubuntu bug report:

Openoffice only reads the $LANG variable to set the language. In some scenarios
it's necessary to use multiple locales, falling in different locale if one is
not available.

The variable $LANGUAGE provides a list of ordered locales separated by ':', that
openoffice should try before fall back to 'C'.

For example, I speak galicia, spanish and english, so my LANGUAGE var is:
LANGUAGE=gl:gl_ES:es:es_ES:en:en_GB:en_US

Comment 1 Mechtilde 2010-01-23 17:57:12 UTC

does the problem still exist?

Comment 2 jeroenhoek 2010-04-23 18:12:47 UTC

@mechtilde

It still exists in OpenOffice.org as shipped with the current Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
beta. This is OO.org 3.2.0 (OOO320m12, build 9483)

Ubuntu's Language Support tool currently sets LANGUAGE for the interface
language (with fallbacks), and LANG is set to the user's locale (number
formatting, etc.).

For example, I have:

LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"
LANG="nl_NL.utf8"

Comment 3 ccheney 2010-05-21 19:55:14 UTC