Open Office is not showing in English, even though the English language is selected

This looks like Pseudo-Localization

That's pseudolocalization used to test compatibility across different languages. Microsoft and others have been doing it for years now.

During most development, the only language that has 100% coverage is en-us because 100% of primary development on Windows is done in Redmond.

Running non-US locales on insider builds, especially in Skip Ahead and Fast Ring, are only shipped with en-US and Pseudoloc'd locales. OP is definitely using en-UK ("programme") which means that a large number of strings are probably pseudoloc'd. This helps identify non-localized strings

it's weird enough that it won't make it into retail through an automated check (there's a lot of zero-width spaces in there, too, which aren't allowed in normal translations for the most part).

Strange font/characters in some apps

From the interface I can see that all characters are the direct analogs of the corresponding English character in the Greek alphabet. For example

ΣΥΜ → SUM. Υ and Μ are upper case Upsilon and Mu, not Latin Y and M
The options dialog has Δεϕαυλτ - Ενγλιση (ΥΣΑ) which transliterates to Default - English (USA). Similarly Εναβλεδ, Λοχαε → Enabled, Locale
The menu reads Εδιτ ςιεω Ινσερτ Φορματ Τοολσ Δατα Ωινδοω Ηελπ which are simply Edit View Insert Format Tools Data Window Help transliterated
And many more...

They're not Greek language at all, considering Tools menu in Greek is εργαλεία μενού that I can find even with zero knowledge of Greek language. Below is a menu in real Greek

There is another one who has exactly your problem when his French locale is translated letter-by-letter to Greek characters

In Libre Office a pseudo language called qtz is used while testing. In fact the language codes qaa-qtz are reserved for used internally by ISO-639 standard (like testing purposes) and you can find some examples of them on the internet like How to remove 'Unknown Locale (qaa-Latn)' from fresh Windows Server installation?

I'm not sure about Open Office but the same thing should happen. Probably you've used some beta or internal testing version, or the pseudo testing language was accidentally released which may be quickly solved by updating the application. Or try changing the interface language to another language and see if it displays correctly

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phuclv

Posted 2017-08-30T11:53:29.730

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Open Office is not showing in English, even though the English language is selected

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