Created attachment 111201 [details] the current zh_CN numbering types The current numbering types for Simplified Chinese are urgly and useless. They need improvements. In Simplified Chinese writing, the following numbering types are seldomly used in paragraphs: * 子，丑，寅... * 壹，贰，叁... * 甲，乙，丙... The related code is here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/i18npool/source/localedata/data/zh_CN.xml Under section "LC_NumberingLevel" related NumType are: http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/offapi/com/sun/star/style/NumberingType.idl
Created attachment 111204 [details] Suggested numbering types for zh_CN locale The numbering types for zh_CN locale should be based on the en_US one, and only change the roman numbering to "一、二、三" and "（一）、（二）、（三）".
I filed a discussion thread in the LibreOffice Chinese discussion forum: http://www.libreofficechina.org/thread-798-1-1.html
Created attachment 111207 [details] suggested numbering for zh_CN locale, after discussion
Well, it's becoming interesting and easy: We can set more than 8 LC_NumberingLevel in the locale data file. If there are more than 8, a scroll bar will appear on the UI to allow you select any of them. So I am going to set more LC_NumberingLevel and put the most used ones on the top.
Pending review for master: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/13646/ for 4.4 branch: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/13647/
Kevin Suo committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ef9897a158e38e57c6f431d591b01c93249680f7 fdo#87626: Improve Simplified Chinese numbering types It will be available in 4.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Kevin Suo committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=77c27317b7a567d086093f0fbc6039658833d016&h=libreoffice-4-4 fdo#87626: Improve Simplified Chinese numbering types It will be available in 4.4.0.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
going to assume we can close this now
There are 15 numbering styles in the list, but something strage happened. Applying numbering works OK using the menu, but doesn't work well using the toolbar icon. Adding bug 88290 as see also.