On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote:
>> because the word "Paris3" was initially in English and changling th
>> language of a documentdoesn't affect its existing content at all, only
>> the default language. I agree this can be misleading and we prbably need
>> an option to change th language of the contents as well. Please open an
>> enhancement request for that.
>>
> I don't think people work that way.
> I.e. they don't write a multi-lingual document by changing the document
> language from time to time in order to add sections in another language.
>
> When I write something multi-lingual, I set the document language to
> the majority language, and set other languages explicitly through the
> character style dialog. I don't change the document language many times.
>
> However, people sometime forget to set the document language at the
> beginning, when writing in some non-default language. Then they need to set
> the language later, so hyphenation and spell checking will work.
>
> When I change the document language, I do expect the language for everything
> to change! Because anything not written with an explicit language is
> supposed to be in "document language", and it is supposed to be in "document
> language" after I change the document language too.
>
> Stuff that is explicitly marked to be in some particular language should
> remain so, of course.
>
I wholeheartedly second all this.
Liviu
