https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36324
--- Comment #11 from Jeremy Brown <jeremy.r.br...@gmail.com> --- I can confirm this problem for my LibreOffice install on Windows 7. However, I do not believe the same problem is present in Linux varieties, at least not on Kubuntu. Here's the way to test out the difference. 1. On your Windows and Linux systems, make sure you have keyboards for 2 languages in your system dock, e.g. English (USA) and French (Canada). 2. Launch LibreOffice Writer. 3. Choose your system keyboard as English from your keyboard chooser. 4. Use the LibreOffice Tools->Language->For all Text to set the document language to English. 5. Type "Hello World. How are you?" Note that the LibreOffice status bar indicates the current language is English (USA). 6. Use your system dock to change the language to French (Candada). 7. Type "Hello World. How are you?" 8.a. Windows: Note that the LibreOffice status bar is now reporting the current language as French (Canada) 8.b. Linux: Note that the LibreOffice status bar is still reporting the current language as English (USA) I agree with Urmas that this is normally a great feature on Windows, since it conforms with how users generally expect things to work, and it is the same thing that MS Word does, for example. However, I believe there should at least be an option to allow LibreOffice on windows to operate the same way as it does on Linux. Maybe a checkbox option on the Tools->Language->For all Text->More... dialog, something like: x Ignore system keyboard locale This is important on Windows for two reasons: 1. It is obviously annoying some users who use major world languages (e.g. English, Dutch, etc.) 2. There are minority language groups that have no locale for their language under Windows. Although they can create a keyboard that will type the characters of their language, the keyboard still has to be created as belonging to one of the languages that Microsoft does define. This essentially means that, although LibreOffice will gladly display these languages in its language lists, (see, for example, Teke-Eboo & Teke-Tyee that I asked to have added) users under Windows can never type in these languages, because LibreOffice will always take the system keyboard language to override the document/paragraph/selection language. I'm personally very interested in seeing this bug resolved. If anyone could help point me to what files contain the code for this, I'd try to hack away at this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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