locale and OpenOffice

[NoOp]

On 08/31/2008 05:13 AM, Tony Arnold wrote:
> 
> verwertungsprozess wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 because I prefer using
>> applications in English language. Nevertheless I want to use
>> international standard formats for things like dates and measurements.
>> Thus I set LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 because with this setting Thunderbird
>> shows all dates as yyyy-mm-dd instead of mm/dd/yyyy.
>> 
>> Now I want OpenOffice to use the metric system (i.e. centimeters
>> instead of inches). I tried
> 
> In Writer, you can right click on the ruler at the top and the side of
> the document and select metric units. Does that help?
> 

Thanks for that! I'd forgotten all about that option.

verwertungsprozess can also easily set the locale in OOo:
Tools|Options|Language Settings|Languages|Locale setting.