I have been working in LO for years and have had my language set at English-Australian, with no problems. Suddenly, every document I work in as soon as I start typing, the language changes to English-US, i.e. it actually shows English Australian when I open a fresh document, but then changes on typing. This is very annoying. I have checked my set-up and everything is as it was with English-Australian set as default. I can’t remove the English-US from my options as I need it for some journal publications. My version details are: Version: 6.2.8.2 (x64)
Build ID: f82ddfca21ebc1e222a662a32b25c0c9d20169ee CPU threads: 6; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; Locale: en-AU (en_AU); UI-Language: en-GB Calc: threaded.
At the moment I am changing every paragraph manually after I have finished, however any further edits immediately changes the text just changed back to English-US, i.e. not the whole paragraph.
Help please.
… and your keyboard layout is…?
… (more precisely) and your input language / keyboard layout are…?
My keyboard layout is US-English and my input language is the default English. I have not changed any hardware in the last few months - this problem with changing to US-English has only just happened in the last few weeks. It is only a problem in LibreOffice, not in any other program I use with text input, e.g. Microsoft Word.
You use a wrong language for input, thus, the problem is yours. Switch the input to English (Australia).
Update … suddenly noticed the time and date format had reverted to US style too. Google search pointed me to the Time and Language settings in Windows10. Have changed Regional Format to Australian English, closed and opened LibreOffice and voila, everything fixed.
Thanks Gabix - I had actually sorted before I read your comment. But thanks anyway. Note that I had not changed anything in my settings, so am wondering whether this was a Windows thing all along. Strange it did not affect MS Word.
In LibreOffice, there is a (very useful!) feature to set text language automatically based on system input language. On Windows, keyboard layout is taken into account when this option is not disabled under Options▸Language Settings▸Languages ([ ] Ignore system input language, which is unchecked by default, making keyboard state recognition active).
I don’t know if you had this setting checked before, or if you used en-AU keyboard layout previously, and switched to en-US recently (the physical keyboard doesn’t matter: this is an OS setting, which is in Language settings under Time and Language group in Settings); but either way (using correct en-AU keyboard layout, or disabling the keyboard state recognition feature by checking the setting in LO) should make it work for you. Disabling the feature in LO would make multi-lingual input more difficult (you would need to not just change active keyboard layout, but also change language explicitly in LO, like you do now for US->AU), but not a problem if you don’t use multiple languages.
Thanks Mike - see my comments in response to Gabix above as I have now sorted and changed setting to English (Australia). I had not changed anything myself since the computer was setup early in '19, so suspect a recent update may have affected things. Anyway, now sorted. Am going to screenshot your response so if it happens again will be a reminder. Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Update … same problem recurred the following day, this time also affected dates in Zotero. Updated Windows OS, closed down and restarted, problems seems to to be fixed. Finger crossed.