Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

At 15:09 20/02/2021 -0800, Nobody Noname wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 8:27 AM Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> > The (Excel) file is the draft for the preparation of a 
> > questionnaire - to be translated into several languages (although 
> > the one I am currently working on has only 3 languages). Means: I 
> > want certain columns ONLY to be set to German, while others next to 
> > it are set to English and Japanese. Applying the language to the 
> > entire document does not do this trick.
>
> I did a little test and was able to reproduce your problem with the 
> Column > Format Cells > Font > Polish (which is just the test 
> language I used). I could reproduce the problem when working with 
> the document as an .xlsx or .xls file, but the problem does NOT 
> exist when I used a .ods file. So the issue seems to be specific to 
> LibreOffice operating with Excel files. You might want to report it 
> as a bug: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport

Sorry, but you are assuming that this is a problem with LibreOffice's 
ability to save in a Microsoft Excel format, and that the fault is 
therefore LibreOffice's. But do we know that it is possible to save a 
spreadsheet document in Excel format with different columns marked as 
being in different languages? That's the same question, effectively, 
as "Can you set different languages for different parts of a 
spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel itself?" I don't know that you can. If 
not, the deficiency is with Microsoft's formats, and the bug report 
should probably go to them instead.

Brian Barker  


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