Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (19 mails)

[akimbo337@xxxxxx]

Hi Friedrich,

what is the output of the command "locale" on your system?
Are the menues, dialogs, etc. of OpenOffice displayed in german or chinese?
where did you set the LC_CTYPE variable?

Marcel

Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 20:51 schrieb Friedrich Dimmling:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> unfortunately this seems not to work for me. BTW I'm using the OpenOffice
> 1.1.0 from SuSE 9.0. The font of the menus is changing but directories and
> file names containing umlaut chars are still not handled properly. Actually
> they are displayed as having length zero, dirs are not listed at all. Even
> if I make a symlink to a dir where the name of the link does not contain an
> umlaut but the dir itself does, I cannot select this directory. Thus it
> seems to me not a problem of font alone. I have tried
>
> export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN and
> export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8
>
> Friedrich
>
> Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 20:02 schrieb akimbo337@xxxxxx:
> > Hello Friedrich,
> >
> > I had the same problem with japanese & german, here's how I got it fixed:
> > In OpenOffice, go to Extras/Optionen/Schriftarten, activate
> > "Ersetzungstabelle anwenden", choose Schriftart: Nimbus Sans, Ersetzen
> > durch: Unifont (at least, these values worked for me). Click the green
> > hook to activate the rule, it should now appear in the box below. You
> > also have to select "Immer" and "Bildschirm". Also, under
> > Extras/Optionen/Zugänglichkeit, deactivate the option called
> > "Systemschriftart für die Benutzeroberfläche verwenden". Click "ok" and
> > it should be fine.
> >
> > Marcel Boeing
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 09:11 schrieb Friedrich Dimmling:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when I start OO in a Chinese locale on my otherwise German SuSE 9.0
> > > system, using
> > >
> > > export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN (or zh_CN.UTF-8, or LANG=...., or similar)
> > >
> > > I can input Chinese characters using SCIM, but the file dialog of OO
> > > (Open etc) does not handle file or directory names containing German
> > > umlaut characters. Such names are not recognized as pertaining to OO
> > > files or to directories.
> > >
> > > Any help?
> > >
> > > Friedrich
> > > --
> > > Friedrich Dimmling, Berlin, Germany
>
> --
> Friedrich Dimmling, Berlin, Germany