On 09/17/2008 03:50 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> On 17/09/2008 21:47, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> Harold Fuchs wrote:
>> [cut]
>>
>>> As I've said to others in this thread, why would anyone go looking in
>>> the places you mention? There seems to be no rational route from the
>>> OOo download pages to any of the sites you cite (don't you just love
>>> the English language?). If I'm missing a rational route please
>>> enlighten me.
>>
>> Try Googling for "OpenOffice.org+mirrors", or
>> "OpenOffice.org+distribution". "Distribution Project Homepage" in the
>> results might give a clue.
>>
>> Peter HB
>>
> You haven't yet provided a link to a British localisation of the latest
> commercial version of OOo for Windows.
>
> I don't want "clues". Nor does the OP of this thread. A single link,
> please. Preferably one referenced somewhere within the
> www.openoffice.org scheme of web pages.
>
> A newbie like the OP of this thread doesn't know what a mirror is. Why
> should one have to use Google to find this stuff? Why should one have to
> use a mirror? Why should one have to Google for a mirror? Using Google
> to hunt for mirrors is *not* a rational route from the OOo web site.
>
> Yes you are technically correct that there is a British English
> localisation. But you give entirely the wrong impression by trying to
> imply ("of course there is, Harold") that anyone can find it without
> performing elaborate mental gymnastics.
>
+1 with Harold. This question seems to get asked time and again on this
list, yet there doesn't seem to be any single wiki/help/support file
that addresses this (that I can find). Have any of the UKer's raised a
bug/issue regarding this? Seems that the lack of easy website pointers
to language packs have alway been inconsistent.
Or, is it really worth the effort to "localise/localize" an OOo
version for UK et al, when UK dictionaries are available? Or are there
other issues that I'm missing/not understanding (being a yank & all :-).
If you set the 'locale' to English UK and install the UK dictionary do
you get anything different than if you were to install the UK language
pack?
On the otherhand, I have just the opposite problem; seems that every
time I install a new Ubuntu linux system I have to go about ridding it
of english_gb and english_za each time... Anyone that pronouces 'Thames'
as 'Tims' can go :-)
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