2009/2/4 David B Teague <[email protected]> > I posted this about a week ago without response. If anyone here knows why > settubg the Locale language to Hebrew might make the program unresponsive > even to attempts to kill it, please enlighten me. > ------------------------------------------ > > I am running AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6 GHz, 1.00 GB RAM and OO.o 3.0.1 with > the Language Tool extension. > > I needed to type a dozen or so Hebrew characters, so I started OO.o Writer, > went to > > Help - Language. > > This saod to go to > > Tools|Options - Languages - locale settings > > I the locale to Hebrew, and pressed OK. OO.o Writer became unresponsive, > and other programs worked very slowly. The Task Manager indicated about 70% > CPU use and the system was not swapping inordinately. I waited a while, then > rebooted. > > After reboot, OO.o wanted to restore the document, I said no. I restarted > Writer. The initial cursor was set to the right hand side of the screen and > the Language locale was set to Hebrew. I did not muck with it further. I > restored the language locale to English (USA) and decided to ask you guys > about this. > > What if anything am I missing here? > > David Teague
David, what OS are you running ? On a Windows machine, wouldn't it be easier to switch languages using the Microsoft IMEs, while on a Linux machin one could use SCIM ?... Henri
