en_ZA locale not correct in applications
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
In all Ubuntu based distributions I have found that in applications such as LibreOffice Calc where I need to see formats applicable to my locale en_ZA (South Africa) the decimal place is denoted by , in the application even though the file /usr/share/
This is the same for monetary values where it is showing , in applications instead of the . as specified in the locale file. The comma was deprecated in South Africa in the 1990s and the generally accepted decimal is .
This makes it extremely difficult to transfer Windows Excel files that have decimal points to a Linux distro that strictly enforces recognising a decimal with a comma and hence renders the Windows Excel file useless in Linux.
The Windows feature of customising locales in terms of date, time, decimal place and digit grouping within the GUI is sorely missing from all desktops in Linux and so this cannot be fixed by the end-user.
| Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote Missing required logs. | #1 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| affects: | linux (Ubuntu) → libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
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