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Internationalisation issue when using English UK, CAN, AU

Asked by Julian Robbins

With 6.0 trunk revision 3934

I set up my openerp clean database from the wizards with English UK set at the beginning.

We have added all our products with Descriptions which are in English (UK). We don't have other languages we wish to use with customers just English (UK).

But when I raise a Quote or a SO, the descriptions are inaccurate as there is a language setting on the Customer that defaults to showing the Products info and description in 'English', ie the International version not English (UK).

Shouldn't for non English (International) countries, ie Canada, Australia, Ireland etc the customer language setting default to the version of English that was set when database was first setup, in my case English (UK) ? Or shouldn't there be a means to allow the ability to change the default language that Partners will see any documents in (Quote line descriptions, etc) to the version of English that was set up initially? I don't want to have to remember to change the Partners language each time to English (UK) from English, it will get forgotten.

We only need one version of English to work with.

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This question was originally filed as bug #676520.

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Julian Robbins (joolsr) said : 		#1

Alternatively, I am happy to just switch to use English, rather than English (UK), and just change the date format. But its not apparent in OpenErp6 how you can change the date format to dd/mm/yyyy from mm/dd/yyyy ...and also report formats will also probably have the incorrect format then .... ?

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Julian Robbins (joolsr) said : 		#2

issue is the same in GTK client and web client

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Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp) said : 		#3

Hello Julian,

For setting the default language of new partners, you can simply right-click on the language field in the partner for and set whatever language you want as the default. This will ensure that new partner have the preferred language. I'm converting this report as a question (hopefully, because this is broken in Launchpad at the moment), in case other people face the same.

I also re-assigned to openobject-server as languages and translations are part of the server.

As for the question of changing the date format in the default english language, this seems like a bug that's worth being reported separately, if not done yet.

Thank you!

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Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp) said : 		#4

Julian, I'm not sure if this is where you have a bug, but you can change the date format of the default english language in Administration/Translations/Languages (in extended view), after switching to the form view.

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Julian Robbins (joolsr) said : 		#5

Ah

Yes, this is confusing. If you just click the English language in Tree view you just get a few options to change in the view itself. I tried it your way and saw the full view which is what you see in v5. Personally, I think its better to see the full view not the shortened view as you woulnt be aware of all the config available from just the short view