From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040430 Description of problem: I'm not a frequent user of Openoffice (I'm a LaTeX guy) but I noticed a problem which annoys me as I like a uniform language-wise desktop and which I think wasn't present in the openoffice.org package originally released with Fedora Core 1: Openoffice interprets the LC_CTYPE environment variable as a tip to change the UI language. This is bad behavior as the variables that could have that effect would be LC_ALL, LANG and LC_MESSAGES only. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.1.0-16 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set LC_CTYPE to fr_FR.UTF-8 (for instance) 2. oowriter Actual Results: Writer is in French. Expected Results: Writer should be in the language defined in LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES or LANG variables. As read in the manpage LC_CTYPE is for "Character classification and case conversion" only. Additional info: I'm using the latest errata openoffice.org package for FC1. My current locale is this: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_NAME=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_ADDRESS=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_TELEPHONE=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_ALL= Note that I used fr_FR.UTF-8 as an example above to show that whatever is in the rest of the variables is irrelevant, openoffice uses the value in LC_CTYPE.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121338 ***
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