Hi,
Is there any way that I can switch off US English from being the default dictionary - it's annoying the crap out of me and the option is greyed out (which it shouldn't be IMO) under options so I can change it that way.
TTFN
Paul
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:32 +0000, Paul wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way that I can switch off US English from being the default dictionary - it's annoying the crap out of me and the option is greyed out (which it shouldn't be IMO) under options so I can change it that way.
---- understandable...
in Oo
does Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids
give you options that work for you?
Craig
Hi,
understandable...
in Oo
does Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids
give you options that work for you?
Sort of - tables still work in US english. I've changed the user defined dictionary is English UK and the ignore is US and also altered the MySpell to be English UK.
Why can't I just do this in the dictionaries? Why is it the default dictionary greyed out? It isn't on the OOo RPMS.
TTFN
Paul
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 15:32 +0000, Paul wrote:
Is there any way that I can switch off US English from being the default dictionary - it's annoying the crap out of me and the option is greyed out (which it shouldn't be IMO) under options so I can change it that way.
I don't have that problem (it's not greyed out, and I don't keep getting US-Engish), but then I've installed languages other just US-English (if I recall correctly), set my Linux system-wide locale/language options, and went through the "language" and "writing aids" "options" section of OOo and unticked any languages I don't want/use.
If I type something like, "what colour is color?" into the word processor, I get the wrong (American) spelling highlighted as being wrong, and no protests about the right (Australian) spelling.
I don't use auto-hyphenation, I don't like the idea, so I've never checked if does its job right. And I so rarely use a thesaurus I can't recall how well it worked, though just testing it I see if offers up "publicize" as a meaning (verb) for "advertise". It's using the Australian thesaurus, so it should offer "publicise". It does the same trick with "colour" (all the offering's spell it incorrectly as "color"). I seem to recall reading there's some idiotic kludge to fake the US Thesauras as other language ones, for those that don't have their own.
By the way, what is that thing in your signature?
Hi,
Is there any way that I can switch off US English from being the default dictionary - it's annoying the crap out of me and the option is greyed out (which it shouldn't be IMO) under options so I can change it that way.
I don't have that problem (it's not greyed out, and I don't keep getting US-Engish), but then I've installed languages other just US-English (if I recall correctly), set my Linux system-wide locale/language options, and went through the "language" and "writing aids" "options" section of OOo and unticked any languages I don't want/use.
I have a normal install with the German language pack. For some reason, FC had defaulted back to US English as the system wide language! I'll give that a spin.
I don't use auto-hyphenation, I don't like the idea, so I've never checked if does its job right.
Same here.
By the way, what is that thing in your signature?
Cut and paste it to a text editor and compile it with gcc. Before you do that, have a guess what the output is.
TTFN
Paul
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:15 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
I have a normal install with the German language pack. For some reason, FCC had defaulted back to US English as the system wide language! I'll give that a spin.
FC4 makes it quite difficult to set your locale/language. It used to be a question asked during installation, now it's not. There used to be a plethora of variations of English available, now it's just US, it seems (that's all mine has on offer, on this particular FC4 box, if I look in a system settings for language). I don't even see a locale configuration option (which is an entirely different function than just language).
On that point, I'll say it's incredibly stupid to have a system-wide, but no per-user, Language setting on a multi-user system.
By the way, what is that thing in your signature?
Cut and paste it to a text editor and compile it with gcc. Before you do that, have a guess what the output is.
Umm, no. I don't run strange programs. Even without malicious intent, there's still the possibility of nasty errors.
What I consider to be my real programming skills stopped being used when programing 8086s by their op codes. I don't know the mnemonics of what your code does to even guess at what it's doing.
Hi,
Cut and paste it to a text editor and compile it with gcc. Before you do that, have a guess what the output is.
Umm, no. I don't run strange programs. Even without malicious intent, there's still the possibility of nasty errors.
I can give you a catagoric promise that your machine won't explode, implode or start stripping the security from your system. It won't invade foreign countries on fake pretences and certainly won't sue over some fraudulent IP claim or other because it's business is shot through.
(It actually outputs the full 12 days of Christmas!)
TTFN
Paul
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