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

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

--- Comment #17 from Eike Rathke <erack at redhat.com> ---
Other than displaying the language as "{en}" (which means "en" is a valid
language tag but there is no "English (generic)" or some such language/locale
list entry), is there an actual problem with those documents? Of course
spell-checking doesn't work with that because there's no indication which
English dictionary is to be used, unless the system provides one for only "en"
(which AFAIK no system has for good reasons).

Yes, we could map a bare "en" to "en-US" but that could be equally wrong if
instead it should had been "en-GB" (or some other). In Google's great
US-centric manner the en-US might be desired here, but..
Asking the user or popping up infobars or making up other fallbacks is not an
option because we accept and preserve *any* syntactically valid BCP47 language
tag, also unknown to us, on purpose.

Btw, I could not see a language attribution in the GDocs UI, spell-checking
seems to use some language recognition, e.g. using German words in an English
UI checks fine and downloading as .docx or .odt also results in "en" attribute
so that crap is useless anyway.

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