[Solved] Want to change how to insert Greek letters in 4.0

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jkljkl
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[Solved] Want to change how to insert Greek letters in 4.0

Post by jkljkl »

Hello,

just installed 4.0.1 and was unpleasantly surprised by the fact that now I have to type for example %Eta instead of %eta for a lower case eta. How can I switch back to the old behavior?

Thank you
stefan

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Or is it a bug, I cannot conceive a rationale for this mix up of upper and lower case mess. Here the new world:
%Alpha %Beta %Gamma %Delta %varepsilon %Zeta %Eta %Theta %jota %kappa %Lambda %my %ny %xi %omikron %pi %rho %varsigma %Sigma %Tau %ypsilon %varphi %Chi %Psi %Omega %vartheta %Phi %varpi %varrho %Epsilon
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Re: want to change how to insert greek letters in 4.0

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I get the lower case Greek letters with these symbols
%alpha %beta %gamma %delta %epsilon %zeta %eta %theta %iota %kappa %lambda %mu %nu %xi %omicron %pi %rho %sigma %tau %upsilon %phi %chi %psi %omega

What are your user interface and locale settings under Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages?
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Re: want to change how to insert greek letters in 4.0

Post by jkljkl »

Thank you for the quick reply and the hint.

I use and installed the german version:
"Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Win_x86_install_de.exe" (AOO401m5(Build:9714) - Rev. 1524958 2013-09-20 11:40:29 (Fr, 20 Sep 2013)) which shows the above mentioned behavior.
I made a parallel installation with:
"Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.1_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe" (AOO401m5(Build:9714) - Rev. 1524958 2013-09-20 11:40:29 (Fr, 20 Sep 2013)) and there everything is fine.

So I will use the English version in future,
thank you again
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Re: [Solved] Want to change how to insert Greek letters in 4

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You may try to write to the localization mailing list or to the German mailing list in order to contact the German translators.
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