Hello Friedrich,
if Your default locale is de_DE@euro, it uses the iso8859-1 codepage, but for
a system like Yours, the adequate would be unicode (utf8). Utf8 can display
*both* chinese and german text. iso8859-1 and the chinese standard GB2312 are
codes containing only the charakters needed for german respectivly chinese,
so with them you cannot use mixed content.
Try setting the following values in YaST/ System/ 'Editor für die
sysconfig-Dateien'/ System/ Environment/ Language:
RC_LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
RC_LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8
ROOT_USES_LANG=ctype
the other values are to be left empty. Click 'ok' and reboot (here, it's
necessairy, I think. Always remembers me of the old times with m$ windows -
the worst ever was 5 subsequent reboots for a single program installation, I
think, for an anti-virus prog or something, these were times... ;-)
Now You should be able to input chinese text in OpenOffice without starting it
with that script You spoke of, or prior setting of variables. Just start it
the normal way and let me know if this solved Your problem.
You also will have to rename all files & dirs containing umlaute, but this is
no work compared to the code-swiching kuddelmuddel without unicode.
Marcel Boeing
Am Donnerstag, 22. April 2004 19:22 schrieben Sie:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. April 2004 09:07 schrieb akimbo337(a)gmx.de:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> I set the LC_CTYPE variable inside a shell script that starts a
menu-selected
> programm in the menu-selected locale. But it's the same in a console shell
> starting the program right after typing export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN. Menus and
> dialogs of OO are displayed in German but AFAIK no other localisations for
OO
> are installed on my system. However the format of date values is e.g.
> 2004/04/22 when I start with LC_CTYPE=zh_CN instead of 22.04.2004 in the
> default locale. Output of locale is de_DE@euro for all values except
> LC_CTYPE=zh_CN and LC_ALL which is empty.
>
> Friedrich
>
> Friedrich
>
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> Friedrich Dimmling, Berlin, Germany
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