Multilingual support

[Colin Law]

On 11 November 2011 14:05, Shawn Pringle <shawn.pringle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed Ubuntu.  I doubted that setting LANG and LANGUAGE in
> the .profile would be enough to get the language messages working in the
> GUI.  However, it did work -- for some of the Ubuntu menu items.  I
> don't want to globally change the language.  One user one language
> another user another.  OpenOffice continues in English on the account
> where Spanish is set for the language.  In looking at the openoffice
> website, it seems to me that OpenOffice's language is fixed when they
> build it.  Please correct me if I am wrong.  Perhaps someone knows
> something I don't on open office's locale support.  Is there something I
> can do to have OpenOffice use English and Spanish according to what user
> is logged in?

I can't try it as I have moved to LibreOffice, but a google search
suggested you might find something useful in Tools -> Options ->
Language Settings -> Language -> User interface.

Colin