NLS recovery on Open Office (Native Language Support)

[dkmweeks]

Hello.

I've been exploring NLS (native language support), and apparently left my Open Office in Arabic. The problem is, I don't read Arabic, and I can no longer effectively use Open Office. At least not well enought to switch it back to English.

I wrote the NLS folks at Open Office, and got this reply:

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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 03:06 -0500, David Weeks wrote:

>> Hello.
>>
>> Sorry to bother, but I've been exploring Native Language Support (nls),
>> and some how managed to put my Open Office into Arabic.
>>
>> Huh.
>>
>> That's no good, because I don't read Arabic, and so I can't manage the
>> dialogs that I guess would get me back to English (which I'm still
>> working on, but can manage the "day to day" by.).
>>
>> How do I reset my native lanquage setting from bash/emacs?
>>


You cannot do this from the commandline, if that is what you are asking.
Setting the languages is done via Tools > Options > Language settings.
This is the 3rd one down and the first level in the dialogue is where
you should select Default for the top three assuming you haven't been
playing with Locale settings at the OS level.

The next solution is more drastic but will work providing your OS locale
is "C" and that is to uninstall OOo and re-install so it picks up your
defaults from the OS.
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Ouch. I'd really rather not. Does anyone here know how to reset the default language setting in Open Office, without deleting and re-installing?