[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 137742] Language Settings not saved to profile

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137742

--- Comment #2 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Larry Tate from comment #0)
> Description:
> Documents I receive from students show {en} as the text language. I have
> gone into Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages and checked that
> English (USA) is the selection in User Interface, Locale Setting, And
> Default Languages of Documents. However, the setting does not take effect.
> Documents I receive from students instead appear as having {en} as the
> language. 
> ...
> This should force all documents to use the selected language.

No.
This setting has no relation to what you see when open *existing* documents,
only to new documents, or to new text that you may enter to documents that
don't define language themselves.

Normally all current complex document formats, like ODF or OOXML (or older
binary formats of MSO), include the information about language used when
creating them. And *that* information must be used when you open those
documents, not something that you define as default for new documents.

So this is not a bug. However, the question is why you see the {en}, and not
something like "English (UK)" or "English (South Africa)" and so on. The
question is, if this is something wrong in LibreOffice at opening/import stage,
or something happening when saving the files (what format are the documents?
which application was used to create them?).

You may want to attach a sample document that shows the problem. Then possibly
the report may be confirmed, and converted to address the actual bug.

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