On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:20:46 +0100, Niklas Nebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

Hi Niklas, 
Thanks for the repsonse. Unfortunately I don't really understand what you
mean. Could you please explain in a little more detail and also tell me how
I can find details about issue 30568
many thanks 
Ted parrett
>Ted Parrett wrote:
>> I recently installed OOo 2.0 on a Windows XP machine. My country is South
>> Africa so I have the language set to English (South Africa) in the Windows
>> regional settings options. For this country the decimal separator is a
>> comma and not a decimal point. The comma is used for decimal numbers and
>> currency. The thousands separator is a space and not a comma. This is how I
>> have these set up in the Windows regional options dialog
>> I am unable to get Calc 2.0 to display and recognise the PC's regional
>> settings even when I set them up in the user defined cell format dialog. I
>> have a tick in the check box to use regional settings for decimal
>> separator. I notice that despite the comma being selected in the Window
>> regional options, the OOo 2.0 Format  Cell dialog shows a decimal point
>> against the check box option  ??? If I also check the tick box for
>> thousands separator then a comma is displayed instead of a space.
>> There is also a problem with the date format display. I set it up as
>> DD/MM/YY but the display comes up as MM/DD/YY
>> I have had to go back to Oo 1.1.4 until I can find a resolution for this
>> problem.
>> I hope there is one and this isn't a prg error that has slipped through the
>> beta testing !!
>
>OOo doesn't read individual items from regional settings. We read only 
>the locale selection, and then use the data we have for that locale. The 
>data for English (South Africa) was changed, see issue 30568 for details 
>and links.
>
>Niklas

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