LibreOffice date acceptance patterns
Update 2012-08-31T23:08+0200 : Editable Date Acceptance Patterns in LibreOffice Abstract: Calc's (and in Writer table) cell input now needs to match locale dependent date acceptance patterns before it...
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Update 2012-08-31T23:08+0200 : Editable Date Acceptance Patterns in LibreOffice As explained in an earlier article a new feature will be available with LibreOffice 3.6 that limits date recognition of...
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Editable Date Acceptance Patterns in LibreOffice
The introduction of more restrictive date acceptance patterns in LibreOffice 3.6 (see earlier blog entries here and here) generated quite some discussion whether the change was good or bad. The fact...
View ArticleGoing to FOSDEM
As usual I'll attend this year's FOSDEM to spread and gather knowledge, meet people and have fun. I'll definitely stick around the LibreOffice Devroom on Sunday if you want to meet me and I would be...
View Articlecharacterize.vim - Unicode character metadata
Just came across and installed the characterize.vim plugin that in Vim modernizes the ga command to reveal character representation. Displayed are now Unicode character names: U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SYMBOL...
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LibreOffice goes BCP 47
This week I accomplished an important milestone of the major rewrite that – apart from the daily work such as fixing bugs, coding small enhancements and reviewing patches – I'm working on since 9...
View ArticleFOSDEM 2014 How to squeeze a language tag into a Locale
The slides of my today's FOSDEM 2014 talk How to squeeze a language tag into a Locale are availabe as PDF now. In the same folder you'll also find the slides of my talk at the LibreOffice Conference...
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LibreOffice 4.3 new language tag feature: adding a BCP 47 language tag
In LibreOffice 4.3 the user will be able to specify an arbitrary valid BCP47 language tag for text attribution. In character attribution dialogs the language list box (of the Western text font if CJK...
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