[upstream] [hardy] Missing XOF currency in currency list

[Sysop CIPB]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Not specific to Ubuntu, but the XOF currency (and possibly X?F other currencies) is (are) missing in all 2.x (current is 2.4.1 updated on today) and 3.0 dev (in test on another Ubuntu platform + on Windows Xp Pro SP2) versions of OpenOffice. I report it here because I have not been to report directly at OpenOffice.org.

Well, as my English is not so good, I'll try to explain in English with a few French words nested.

The only X?F currency present in OOo is XAF, which means "CFA Francs for Center Africa" (not for all french-speaking Africa). When it was done, as there were two many french-speaking countries in Africa, two (2) currencies were made : XAF for center Africa (Cameroon, Gabon, and probably a few other ones) and XOF for West Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, perhaps Senegal too -- I'm not sure, I live in Benin). Even the banks managing these currencies (BCEAO : Banque Centrale des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest for XOF zone, I don't remember the name for XAF zone) were not allowed to change bills between them; I have been in Cameroon (in Douala and Limbé) a few years ago, and (a) my French francs (XOF) from Benin were not allowed there, and (b) no, even the local desk of my bank (Ecobank) couldn't change my bills for local French francs, so it's not a joke, but really serious. I fear that using XAF currency in place of XOF one in invoices or such documents may cause legal troubles, too.

I think there are also XCF (or something like that) for far French territories (DOM/TOM : Domaines d'Outre-Mer/Territoires d'Outre-Mer), but I'm not sure -- I've never been to Tahiti.

Of course, what I expect to happen is the adding of the full list of X?F currency, with detailed names "XAF Songa" is a bit short and perhaps not even true -- what is Songa ?

Thanks for your help, or to transmit this message to the people in charge of the parameters at OpenOffice.org.

Yves Pouplard
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 29 14:09:27 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

No new OOo releases in Ubuntu => Wont fix
Needs upstream bug reference in LibreOffice => Incomplete