I installed OpenOffice 1.1.0 with 'LANGUAGE=49 emerge openoffice' and got a working OpenOffice installation in German. However, the help system of OpenOffice is in English instead of German. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start OpenOffice 2. Call the help system Actual Results: The help appeared in English instead of German. Expected Results: The help should've appeared in German. Maybe other non-English OpenOffice installations are affected by this bug, too.
This is known, I believe there are some patches to allow manual downloading of the needed helpfiles, but it is hard to support with current portage. I'll look at it sometime in the future.
Move deprecated ebuild still being marked as LATER to Fixed.