I am having a hard time configuring my locale. Is there an application
that will display a date, a currency value, a time, a large integer, a
negative number, and some other locale-related data such that I can
see how my system is configured?
Specifically, I want Open Office 3 and Thunderbird 2 to use the
yyyy-mm-dd date format but I cannot seem to configure this. I am using
the KDE 3.x desktop. Thanks.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 05:52, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a hard time configuring my locale. Is there an application
> that will display a date, a currency value, a time, a large integer, a
> negative number, and some other locale-related data such that I can
> see how my system is configured?
>
> Specifically, I want Open Office 3 and Thunderbird 2 to use the
> yyyy-mm-dd date format but I cannot seem to configure this. I am using
> the KDE 3.x desktop. Thanks.
I use the en_US.UTF-8 locale overall, with the yyyy-mm-dd date format.
I do this with the /etc/environment file with these contents:
en_DK means English in Denmark, which is a fake locale made for
the ISO date format.
I don't know if OO.o 3 and Thunderbird will pick this up (it is mainly
for CLI and system utilities).
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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12-06-2008, 06:35 PM
Lisi Reisz
Locale testing
On Saturday 06 December 2008 13:52:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am having a hard time configuring my locale. Is there an application
> that will display a date, a currency value, a time, a large integer, a
> negative number, and some other locale-related data such that I can
> see how my system is configured?
Kcontrol -> regional and accessibility -> country/region and language.
Adjust/accept.
HTH
Lisi
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12-06-2008, 07:06 PM
"Dotan Cohen"
Locale testing
2008/12/6 Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 05:52, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am having a hard time configuring my locale. Is there an application
>> that will display a date, a currency value, a time, a large integer, a
>> negative number, and some other locale-related data such that I can
>> see how my system is configured?
>>
>> Specifically, I want Open Office 3 and Thunderbird 2 to use the
>> yyyy-mm-dd date format but I cannot seem to configure this. I am using
>> the KDE 3.x desktop. Thanks.
>
> I use the en_US.UTF-8 locale overall, with the yyyy-mm-dd date format.
> I do this with the /etc/environment file with these contents:
>
> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"
>
> en_DK means English in Denmark, which is a fake locale made for
> the ISO date format.
>
> I don't know if OO.o 3 and Thunderbird will pick this up (it is mainly
> for CLI and system utilities).
>
Thanks. I do know how to set the locales, but I want to see an app
that shows that they are set correctly. Therefore I could conclude
that Open Office is ignoring a correctly set locale and I could file
an issue.
If you'd like to help me, seeing as you are using the ISO date format,
then please enter the date 2008-08-10 into a cell in calc, leave the
cell, then return. Now press F2 to edit the cell. What date format
have you in the edit bar? See attached screenshot for the mess that
OOo is giving me.
By the way, I do know about en_DK, in fact I think that I discovered
it myself while experimenting:
hardy2@hardy2-laptop:~$ cat .bin/thunderbird
#!/bin/bash
export LC_ALL="";export LC_TIME="en_DK.utf8";/usr/bin/thunderbird "$@"
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I do know how to set the locales, but I want to see an app
> that shows that they are set correctly. Therefore I could conclude
> that Open Office is ignoring a correctly set locale and I could file
> an issue.
The locale setting for Open Office is in OO itself.
Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Locale setting
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12-06-2008, 07:43 PM
"thveillon.debian"
Locale testing
Dotan Cohen wrote :
> Thanks. I do know how to set the locales, but I want to see an app
that shows that they are set correctly. Therefore I could conclude
that Open Office is ignoring a correctly set locale and I could file
an issue.
If you'd like to help me, seeing as you are using the ISO date format,
then please enter the date 2008-08-10 into a cell in calc, leave the
cell, then return. Now press F2 to edit the cell. What date format
have you in the edit bar? See attached screenshot for the mess that
OOo is giving me.
[...]
Hi,
my locales are set system wide to fr_FR.UTF-8, and Ooo3 is set to use
the system default in it's linguistic preferences, so if I type
22-11-2008 in calc's cell it gives me 22/11/2008 in the edit bar, and
22/11/08 in the cell (auto-formating).
If I change Ooo3 linguistic settings to "English USA" for the active
document, it instantly changes the cells and the edit bar to the US
format 11/22/2008 in both the cell and the edit bar.
I am talking about Ooo3 1:3.0.0-6 from Debian experimental.
If it can help.
Tom
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12-06-2008, 07:53 PM
"Dotan Cohen"
Locale testing
2008/12/6 Sjoerd Hiemstra <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I do know how to set the locales, but I want to see an app
>> that shows that they are set correctly. Therefore I could conclude
>> that Open Office is ignoring a correctly set locale and I could file
>> an issue.
>
> The locale setting for Open Office is in OO itself.
>
> Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Locale setting
>
And where in there can one configure the date format? I have tried
many of the different locale places but none of them give me the
yyyy-mm-dd date format.
2008/12/6 thveillon.debian <thveillon.debian@googlemail.com>:
> my locales are set system wide to fr_FR.UTF-8, and Ooo3 is set to use the
> system default in it's linguistic preferences, so if I type 22-11-2008 in
> calc's cell it gives me 22/11/2008 in the edit bar, and 22/11/08 in the cell
> (auto-formating).
>
> If I change Ooo3 linguistic settings to "English USA" for the active
> document, it instantly changes the cells and the edit bar to the US format
> 11/22/2008 in both the cell and the edit bar.
>
> I am talking about Ooo3 1:3.0.0-6 from Debian experimental.
>
> If it can help.
>
Thanks, Tom. In response to your post, I went looking for a list of
the differences between the locales in OOo3. I could not find such a
list, so I asked on the OOo mailing list. Specifically, I am looking
for a locale with yyyy-mm-dd date format but I'd like to know what
other settings will be affected. When I hear back from OOo I will
update here. Thanks.
Locale testing
