View source for Writer/Drafts/issue 66319

This is a specification draft for [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66319 issue 66319], which is about "how to set language for object caption". Please bear in mind that this page is geared towards developing a specification (see also [[:Category:Specification]]); don't discuss here, use the Talk page (discussion link above) instead. Thanks.

== General overview ==
There's consensus that it should be possible to edit a document in rotation among several users with different OOo versions and localizations without any problems, especially without visibility of the different editors' OOo localizations. 

== Specifications ==
# Without regard of the localization of the used OOo, standard terms of the "document language" must be used in the document. For example:
## "Illustration" for image caption in a document with English language (not "Abbildung", even if you work with OOo_de)
## "Table of Contents" for a new index (not "Inhaltsverzeichnis", even if you work with OOo_de)

== Possible solutions ==

=== Create a new document property: ''document standard language'' ===
For all actions this ''document standard language'' should be preselected.
* Advantages:
** That seems to be simple for the users
*Disadvantages
** That is not trivial. 
*** special "language packs" that contain the special terms used for automatic and semi-automatic functions like caption for objects must be available.

=== Take language from paragraph ===
Problem: There is no general ''paragraph language'', how should such selection work?


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