Re: Languages

On 8/29/2011 4:43 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:
> On 8/29/2011 1:53 PM, Sigrid Carrera wrote:
>> Hello Erwin,
>>
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:14:10 -0500
>> Dale Erwin<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> If this is not the proper forum, perhaps someone could point me to the
>>> proper one, but I am trying to find out what is necessary to be done to
>>> have a new language available for OOo.
>>
>> You might have to download a so called "languagepack" for the
>> language you want and have to install it alongside your OOo version.
>>
>> Once you have installed it, go to Tools -> Options -> Language
>> settings -> Language and choose there the default language you want.
>> You will have to close OOo completely (even the Quickstarter if you
>> use it) and restart OOo for the change to take effect.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Sigrid
>
> >
>
> After sending my email, I was afraid it would be construed that way. I 
> don't mean adding a language to my installation that OOo already 
> supports. I mean adding a language to those that OOo supports. I'm 
> specifically thinking of the Neapolitan language (I dislike using the 
> term dialect, but it is commonly referred to as an Italian dialect).
>
>
I would recommend the following:
http://contributing.openoffice.org/native-lang.html
It is the contribution page for those wishing to help with furthering
OOo and where you can get the list information for localized languages.
Good luck!

Tom

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