[plug] OOo default language

[Scott Middleton]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 20:40, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Adrian Woodley wrote:
> 
> | Question:
> | How can I set en_GB or en_AU to be the system wide, default language. An
> | entry to sofficerc or openoffice.conf would be favourable.
> 
> First I'd make sure that /etc/environment had The Right Thing in it.  In
> mine:
> 
> 	LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_GB:en_NZ:en
> 	LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> 
> You'll also need to install an appropriate dictionary; in Debian, this
> is the myspell-en-gb package.  I /think/ (but am not completely sure)
> that given all of this, OO.o will use a sane default language.
> 
> Installing kde-i18n-engb might be worthwhile if you're using KDE.
> (Thanks to someone on this list - John Knight? - for this tip.)
> 
> You will almost certainly want to edit /etc/openoffice/psprint.conf so
> that it defaults to A4, too.  (Assuming that yours doesn't by default...
> mine certainly didn't, despite libpapersize - and hence CUPS - having a
> sensible default.  This is Debian bug #215841 FWIW.)
> 
> Cameron.
> 
I also use:

http://borft.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/contrib/dictionaries/download_dictionary.html
It has an Australian one as well.

Excerpt from release notes:
- Words incorrect in Australian English removed
- a list from the previously removed words with corrected spelling was added
- a list of major rivers was added
- a list of place names was added
- a list of Australian mammals was added 
- a list of Aboriginal/Koori words commonly used was added

You may have to edit /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst

Regards

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