abiword uses inches regardless of locale settings

[Wizard]

Binary package hint: abiword

Regardless of $LANG abiword uses inches and forces users to manually change it. Better idea would be to rely on $LC_* variables

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: abiword 2.8.6-0.3build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 19 19:29:36 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL:en
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
SourcePackage: abiword
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 234756, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.