Re: [discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major release

[Mary Compton]

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From: "William W. Austin" <wau...@speakeasy.net>
To: <dis...@openoffice.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major
release

> On 2007-11-21 20:31:47, jonathon wrote:
>> Mike wrote:
>>
>> >, then Open Office should not be telling users that they have to
>> adapt to some arbitrary standard.
>>
>> ISO standards are not arbitrary. (At least, in theory they aren't
>> arbitrary.)
>>
>> Suggesting that one use an ISO standard instead of an arbitrary,
>> non-standard, unit is a reasonable request.
>>
>> xan
>>
>> jonathon
>
> Perhaps what Mike means is that while the ISO standard exists, his
> company has a large number of documents in which people have used
> whatever format they liked (randomly?) inputting the date info, and
> that OOo displays the dates differently.
>
> He might also find that such documents written in MSO 98 professional
> (or earlier) sometimes exhibit a similar problem when brought up in MSO
> 2003 on XP. :-/
>
> Just my $0.02 worth (actually less than that due to inflation)
> - Bill
>
> --
> william w. austin wau...@speakeasy.net
> "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
>
>
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