Re: [OOo-Hebrew] ODP not saving directionality information

Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> On 7/4/06, Shachar Shemesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Locale - LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL
>
> Does OOo really work at all now with those Locale settings?
> That would be great!
>
> In my opinion, those are the correct locale settings for a
> speaker of U.S. English living in Israel. In general.
> But not for OOo.
Actually, the correct setting for a user who wishes to get English 
interface and lives in Israel would be LANG=he_IL, LC_MESSAGES=en_US. If 
one really wants to emulate that without, one would have to also set 
LC_MONETARY, LC_COLLATE, LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC, LC_MEASUREMENT etc. to 
he_IL, which is not one would normally want.

For some reason (well, mostly historic, but none good), the LANG=en_US 
misnomer got rooted in the collective Israeli Linux users' collective 
configuration. It doesn't make it right.

Unfortunately, more and more programs tend to ignore the locale setting, 
and set their configuration based on private settings. I don't see it as 
a good thing at all.

          Shachar

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