Bug: ODT exporter does not honour +LANGUAGE line [9.1.9 (release_9.1.9-65-g5e4542 @ /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/org/)]

Bug: ODT exporter does not honour +LANGUAGE line [9.1.9 (release_9.1.9-65-g5e4542 @ /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/org/)]

[Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker]

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Dear maintainer,

the ODT exporter always exports as English, even if a document is not
written in English and contains a corresponding +LANGUAGE line. Take for
example this German document:

    #+AUTHOR: Ich
    #+TITLE: Test
    #+LANGUAGE: de
    
    Dies ist ein Test.

When it is exported as ODT, the main language is set to English. As a
result, the office application's spell checker (LibreOffice's one in my
case) highlights everything as wrong that isn't accidentally a valid
word in English. To fix that one has to manually change the document's
main language to German (in this case) via the office application's
menus. This is annoying, especially if the intention is to automatically
further convert to DOCX and send the document out unmodified. The HTML
exporter on the other hand handles the +LANGUAGE line just fine.

  -quintus


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.5)
 of 2019-09-23, modified by Debian
Package: Org mode version 9.1.9 (release_9.1.9-65-g5e4542 @ /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/org/)

current state:
==============
(setq
 org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
 org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
 org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
 org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer)
 org-html-format-inlinetask-function 'org-html-format-inlinetask-default-function
 org-odt-format-headline-function 'org-odt-format-headline-default-function
 org-ascii-format-inlinetask-function 'org-ascii-format-inlinetask-default
 org-mode-hook '(#[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
		   [add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5]
		 #[0 "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
		   [add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5]
		 org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes)
 org-odt-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn NAME CONTENTS)"]
 org-archive-hook '(org-attach-archive-delete-maybe)
 org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
 org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
 org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
 org-bibtex-headline-format-function #[257 "\300\236A\207" [:title] 3 "\n\n(fn ENTRY)"]
 org-latex-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn _ CONTENTS)"]
 org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer)
 org-tab-first-hook '(org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand)
 org-ascii-format-drawer-function #[771 "\207" [] 4 "\n\n(fn NAME CONTENTS WIDTH)"]
 org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
 org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-show-empty-lines
		  org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
 org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-activate org-babel-speed-command-activate)
 org-odt-format-inlinetask-function 'org-odt-format-inlinetask-default-function
 org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
 org-link-parameters '(("id" :follow org-id-open)
		       ("rmail" :follow org-rmail-open :store org-rmail-store-link)
		       ("mhe" :follow org-mhe-open :store org-mhe-store-link)
		       ("irc" :follow org-irc-visit :store org-irc-store-link)
		       ("info" :follow org-info-open :export org-info-export :store
			org-info-store-link)
		       ("gnus" :follow org-gnus-open :store org-gnus-store-link)
		       ("docview" :follow org-docview-open :export org-docview-export :store
			org-docview-store-link)
		       ("bibtex" :follow org-bibtex-open :store org-bibtex-store-link)
		       ("bbdb" :follow org-bbdb-open :export org-bbdb-export :complete
			org-bbdb-complete-link :store org-bbdb-store-link)
		       ("w3m" :store org-w3m-store-link) ("file+sys") ("file+emacs")
		       ("doi" :follow org--open-doi-link) ("elisp" :follow org--open-elisp-link)
		       ("file" :complete org-file-complete-link)
		       ("ftp" :follow (lambda (path) (browse-url (concat "ftp:" path))))
		       ("help" :follow org--open-help-link)
		       ("http" :follow (lambda (path) (browse-url (concat "http:" path))))
		       ("https" :follow (lambda (path) (browse-url (concat "https:" path))))
		       ("mailto" :follow (lambda (path) (browse-url (concat "mailto:" path))))
		       ("news" :follow (lambda (path) (browse-url (concat "news:" path))))
		       ("shell" :follow org--open-shell-link))
 org-latex-format-headline-function 'org-latex-format-headline-default-function
 org-latex-format-inlinetask-function 'org-latex-format-inlinetask-default-function
 org-html-format-drawer-function #[514 "\207" [] 3 "\n\n(fn NAME CONTENTS)"]
 org-html-format-headline-function 'org-html-format-headline-default-function
 )

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Re: Bug: ODT exporter does not honour +LANGUAGE line [9.1.9 (release_9.1.9-65-g5e4542 @ /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/org/)]

[Bastien]

Hi Marvin,

‘quintus’ Gülker <post+orgmodeml@guelker.eu> writes:

> the ODT exporter always exports as English, even if a document is not
> written in English and contains a corresponding +LANGUAGE line. 

thanks for reporting this.

AFAIK, the language of an ODT document is set through the document
style.  When exporting from Org, that would be OrgOdtStyles.xml :

https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/src/master/etc/styles/OrgOdtStyles.xml#L20

You can use your own style (see the manual) but you are right that
this is independent from setting the langage through #+LANGUAGE.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien