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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
