[Solved] UI languages in LibreOffice

[migimohidarimo]

I’ve been an OpenOffice user for many years but over the last few years have considered moving to LibreOffice a number of times.

Each time I see news about something new in LibreOffice which I'd benefit from, or find something I can't do in OpenOffice I look again. Now I can't find specific mention of the language limitation which held me back in the past, nor clear information saying it's been addressed.

The last time I looked into this (a few years ago), a single installation of LibreOffice would not allow the UI language to change per user. Is this still a limitation? I'd like the UI language to default to the language used for the system UI for the user logged in and have the ability to override that setting per user.

[Villeroy]

Of course, each user can have its own UI langauge. This has always been a feature in OpenOffice.
User = User logged in at your system. Each use has her/his own profile folder ~/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice/4 where the user's settings and preferences are stored.

You have to install one language pack for each language that should be selectable by each user. 5 langauges means that you have to add 4 language packs in addition to the installed language version. The language packs are added to the installation folder so the language is availlable to all users.

[migimohidarimo]

This has always been a feature in OpenOffice.

Thanks for the reply but it was LibreOffice which was unclear. In the past I saw information saying that it was not possible with LibreOffice and that (unlike OpenOffice) a full installation for each language was needed to change the UI. That was the main reason I haven't migrated to LibreOffice. I already have a multi-language setup for OpenOffice.

[Villeroy]

Works for me on Linux with LO 6, LO 7.2 and 2 different languages (English with German language pack) for 2 different user accounts.

[migimohidarimo]

Thank you for the confirmation.

I will give it a go.

... 30 minutes later

Installed. Two language packs installed and preferences set differently for two users.

I had no problems although there were a couple of unexpected changes to parameters I didn't touch. For example I set the Asian default document language to Japanese before installing a language pack. After installing a language pack for English (UK) I found the Asian language had changed to Chinese. I changed it back and installed the Japanese language pack as well. That triggered another change, this time in the default western document language. I don't know why these changes happened but as I spotted them and changed them back there's no problem. I now have one user with an English interface and another with Japanese and no problems yet.