[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 46448] Allow custom locale settings for decimal separator, group separator, default date and time formats

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46448

--- Comment #47 from Mark <markysparky77 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #46)
> From bug description: 
> > The language specific settings should be set in LibreOffice itself and not rely > on the operating system.
> 
> (In reply to Mark from comment #36)
> > [...]
> > All that is needed to correct this is for LibreOffice to adopt the format as
> > set by the operating system region settings.
> 
> So you're asking for the opposite of the original description. I think that
> this contradiction shows well that this "enhancement" is not really an
> improvement. So I propose to close this bug report as "NotABug" (not as
> "WontFix" because there is nothing to fix there).
> 
> Best regards. JBF

Actually no! This bug was not created by me. I created ticket 134897
(https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134897) that Eike Rathke
marked as a duplicate of this, and closed it.

It is not a duplicate since the problem still exists that formatting inside
Libre Office does not conform to the locale settings as in Windows that other
applications do conform to. This results in discrepancies when transferring
data between Calc and other applications.

I have proposed the interim fix of aligning Libre Office locale formatting to
Open Office to make it usable until such time as this 8 year old ticket is
resolved. Short of that, Libre Office Calc is not practically usable in South
Africa.

The details about the formatting are as I have described in my above comments.
I have provided examples that demonstrate that the government themselves do not
conform to what Eike Rathke deems to be the accepted standard and I have
explained why this is the case.

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