Issue 80654

Summary:

Java locale is set based on UI language rather than locale setting

Product:

General

Reporter:

mux2005 <mux2005>

Component:

code

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

baumux, chris_mux, chrlutz, damjan, issues, kpalagin

Version:

680m221

Keywords:

release_blocker

Target Milestone:

4.2.0

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Issue Type:

DEFECT

Latest Confirmation in:

4.1.3

Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Beanshell macro to output JVM's locale setting	none

Description mux2005 2007-08-13 14:49:48 UTC

Steps to reproduce:

1. Configure OpenOffice.org language settings (Tools/Options/Language
Settings/Languages to

User Interface: English (USA)
Locale setting: German(Germany)

2. Restart OOo, Open the attached document testlocale.odt
3. Run the enclosed Beanshell macro

Expected results:
Locale country code: DE
Decimal point: ,

Actual results:
Locale country code: US
Decimal point: .

4. Change the Language Settings like this

User Interface: German(Germany)
Locale setting: English (USA)

5. Restart OOo, load testlocale.odt
6. Run the macro

Expected results:
Locale country code: US
Decimal point: .

Actual results:
Locale country code: DE
Decimal point: ,

So clearly, the Locale setting of OOo's JVM depends on the UI language rather
than the locale setting. It should be the other way around. 
This problem affects a Java extension of ours which uses the locale-specific
decimal point. Users that use the English UI can't enter numbers properly.

I'm seeing this under Linux with m221 and Windows with 2.2.0.

Comment 1 mux2005 2007-08-13 14:51:04 UTC

Created attachment 47513 [details]
Beanshell macro to output JVM's locale setting

Comment 2 kpalagin 2008-01-27 20:53:22 UTC

Confirming with 2.3.1 on WiNXP - as described.

Comment 3 SVN Robot 2016-10-20 16:34:45 UTC

"damjan" committed SVN revision 1765849 into trunk:
#i80654# Java locale is set based on UI language rather than locale setting

Comment 4 damjan 2016-10-20 16:36:31 UTC

Java's language is now the "User interface" language, while its country is the "Locale setting" country. The test document included here works as expected. Resolving fixed.

Comment 5 Marcus 2016-10-20 17:58:01 UTC

@damjan:
Setting the keyword "release_blocker" doesn't mean anything. If you want to get this into 4.1.4 please set the flag "4.1.4_release_blocker?" to request this as release blocker - see on the right hand side .

HTH