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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 7 18:26:05 +0000 2008 ------- > People writing English documents will not need a different keyboard layout if > their default layout is any other Western layout (French, German, Italian Right. However, people writing (usually) French documents (and using French keyboard by default) would probably use another layout (German) to write documents in German (just for umlauts or sz), for example. I'm afraid you tend to get into the "US trap of ASCII127" here as English is the least common denominator for all Western languages ;-). > Comments, anyone? Can your suggestion be re-stated and generalized as follows: "For the system input language to be auto-applied to the text being entered, the two languages must belong to different scripting groups"? Here "scripting groups" at the first glance are similar to Western-Greek-Cyrillic-Turkish-Hebrew-etc fonts division in old MSWord and in current WordPad. (Just a little background for pure-western people: like "western" is a basis for English, French, German etc having different national keyboard layouts, so is "cyrillic" for Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian and others; I suspect that the same situation might be with "arabic" at least.) If it's correct then I suggest that the "disable the feature" logic above is applied only to systems with only one input locale installed, as users that have installed more than one locale probably both have "more complex needs" and are advanced enough to install more input locales and be able to switch between them. Consider yourself, but in situation where "usually 50% of your document's contents is in English and other 50% is in German (intermixed!)", not "99.9% of your documents and their contents are in English, irregardless of your only input locale being German" and you still want spellchecking to work properly. Of course, for any "list-based" implementation the evil is that UI changes have really been frozen now, so user cannot disable this feature even if he finds it working improperly; and we have to be ready for being blamed (the system wants to be smarter than us again!), maybe not without a reason ;-). OFF: I'd rather say that the whole "default language" idea is a little bit confusing... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
