https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56457
--- Comment #8 from joaquin <[email protected]> --- It should not be global and it should not be a document setting since the problem is the source, not the document. I can link to datasources all over the globe in the same document. Also it should not be a locale because people mess with locales. The easiest solution, in my opinion, is a choice per external link, so you can select the decimal separator ("." or ",") and the date (e.g. USA, "rest of the world", ISO, that import seems to work in LO as long as it does not swap month and day). There already is a choice about the used locale when inserting a link but selecting the locale is not good enough. That is caused by: - The USA using month and day swapped (as oposed to all other English and other locales) - People messing with decimal separators and dates putting them in different than their locale dictates. Also this locale selection when inserting a link does not work as expected (bug 53103). Note: There is another reason why the locale is not a good choice. People are messy. Most countries in the world use DMY and/or ISO for dates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country Just like Mexico already seems to have adopted the decimal dot and unofficially Letter instead of A4, there is somd confusion about the official date (fecha) format here and there: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1537781 Letter used instead of the official A4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4_paper#Application So maybe the description of this bug should be: "allow (source related) date andn number setting for 'Insert - External Data'" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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