<div dir="ltr">2008/8/31 verwertungsprozess <<a href="mailto:verwertungsprozess@gmail.com">verwertungsprozess@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> 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 $ LC_MEASUREMENT=en_DK.utf8 openoffice and $ LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.utf8 openoffice but OpenOffice still uses inches. Even if I use $ LANG=de_DE.utf8 openoffcie but then OpenOffice uses German language but still inches for measurements :( So it looks to me as if OpenOffice wouldn't use the system locale settings at all to determine the measurement units to use. On the other hands I couldn't find any setting in the preferences to set the measurement units. But I saw on a completely German Ubuntu OpenOffice using the metric system. Could anyone give me a hint how to force OpenOffice to use the metric system for measurements? Cheers, -- Moritz Reiter -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote>I just noticed that you asked a question about OpenOffice.org on the Ubuntu list. That's not a bad idea, I suppose, I just wanted to inform you, just in case you didn't already know, that there are a few OpenOffice.org lists as well. In the future, if you ask something more and don't get good answers here, you might want to try the <a href="mailto:users@openoffice.org">users@openoffice.org</a> list. There are also lists for OpenOffice.org developers and a few lists for other languages than English. More info can be found at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html">openoffice.org</a> but I think you can subscribe to the OpenOffice.org user's list by sending an empty email to <a href="mailto:users-subscribe@openoffice.org">users-subscribe@openoffice.org</a>. J.R.</div>