Kieran wrote: > there really between all the different language versions of openoffice?
In theory, all language versions of OOo contain the same feature set. In practice, that is not always true. * OOo 1.1.3-ZA offers a User Interface in five or six different languages. * Some versions of OOo 1.0.x-JA and 1.1.x-JA offered printing and formatting options that are not found on other versions. * At least one "unofficial" version of OOo contains character encoding conversion routines that are not found in "official" builds of OOo. > How much bigger would the program be if it contained all the language info? The language packs for the OOo 2.0 South Africa CD take up 270 MB, when archived. Given that OOo is available in 40-something languages, the archive size of the language packs would be at least One GB. If you were wondering about the size of the OOo directory, with all those language packs installed, I have no idea. [I'll install them later.] FWIW, my OOo 1.1.3-ZA folder was roughly 500 MB in size. It did include a couple of non-standard additions. [Every dictionary for OOo I could download, being one example. Roughly 100 macros that other people created being another example.] >Why not have languages available as separate language packs? In theory, those are available. Finding them is another issue. http://translate.scir.sjsoft.com/download/openoffice.org/OOo-2.0.0-20051020/ has the OOo 2.0 South Africa language packs for Windows. Anotehr set of language packs is available from http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/2.0.0rc2/ And a third set of language packs is/was available somewher at ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/ xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.
