Thanks to you all dear friends for your valuable comments.
The problem I stated was independent from the operating system (windows
or Linux behaviors were just the same) and I am using English version of
LO 3.2.
I was looking a windows - MS Office way of handling localization and
customization of predefined special symbols for thousand separator or
decimal point symbol or so.
My conclusions after all discussions and contributions:
1. LO is not referring to system settings (-such as decimal point
character or thousand separator character). (P.S. To Developers:
Difficult to understand, why not?)
2. There is no way to customize those symbols/characters. (P.S. to
Developers: More difficult to understand, why not?)
3. The only way is to choose from pre-defined locale settings which
suits best. (P.S. Default US-EN suits me best (-not perfect) for all
other aspects and I will continue to use that set)
4. There is only one possibility to alter the predefined characters and
it is providing a new dictionary file. (P.S. I have no idea how to do
it? Where and how should I start to study the issue? )
Thanks again.
Cevad.
On 03/28/2011 09:55 PM, Glenn wrote:
I've seen issues like this concerning language and other
cultural standards come up before. I find TDF's support
of languages other than English pretty good.
So let me cut to to chase. I have a friend who is
involved in writing multi-lang. program interfaces,
including German and he says that, in most cases,
all you have to do is provide a dictionary file that
suits your purpose and have the application reference
it.
The app will make the accommodation for you.
And let's get down to the language of business:
for now, at least, it's still mostly English.
C'est la vie!
On 3/28/11 1:53 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
mån 2011-03-28 klockan 18:25 +0300 skrev Cevad OZTUG:
:)
> Select the appropriate language (the language that makes use of that
> number format you are talking about) in your character settings in
your
> styles and/or in your document.
Could you please advice which one is this?
Which language that has your number format or what?
In Calc, select all cells → Format cells… → Numbers → Language
Select the language option thing and use your arrow keys (↑ and ↓) to
view them one by one. Look at the example field (the one in the middle).
The following languages seems to use the ”1'234.12” format:
French (Schweiz)
German (Liechtenstein)
German (Schweiz)
Italian (Schweiz)
Seems to be a Schweiz/Liechtenstein thing…
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