On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:34 +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote:
> Dave Baytopp wrote:
> > I am having problems with the decimal separator.  OO (text document and
> > spreadsheet) is currently displaying numbers and currency values with
> > the comma as the decimal separator and the period as the 1000's
> > separator whereas I would prefer them the other way around.
> > 
> > I am using Windows XP Pro.
> > My regional options settings have been set to South Africa where the
> > items are displayed correctly.
> > 
> > In OO under Tools / Options / Language Settings / Language both the
> > Locale and Currency have been set to SA.
> 
> South African locale data was wrong in 1.1.x (see issue 30568), this was 
> fixed for 2.0.
> 
> > Could you please help with the above problem and get back to me as to
> > whether it is possible to use the period as the decimal separator.
> 
> With 1.1.x the best thing you can do is select a different locale in 
> language settings.
> 

Easier, is to go to <install_dir>/OpenOffice.org/1.1.x/program/ooovirg
and execute to reset the keyboard to what you need. That takes care of
the keyboard but you may want to either enable/disnumber recognition for
various modules or, as a last resort, forget ooovirg and change your
locale to something that is near what you need.
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