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Hi Miklos,

On Friday, 2012-06-29 15:04:10 +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:

I mean that a huge amount of people use the en_US locale as their
default "I want everything in English even though I'm not in the US"
locale[1]

But that is just plain wrong IMHO, LC_MESSAGES=C can be used to get
"everything in English" without screwing up LANG.

How many users know about a C locale? And how many know that there's
LC_MESSAGES that can be set differently and how? An why should anyone
choose C that doesn't even know utf-8?  Nowadays you mostly choose
a locale during installation and never touch it again. If you want an
English system that usually results in LC_ALL and LANG set to
en_US.UTF-8 then.

That's what I do as well despite living in de_DE, because my daily work
happens in English environments (and I never understood why and how
anyone can bear translated system and compiler messages ;-)  and even
most data import involves en_US separators and so on. When I feel a need
of nitpicking I can set paper and measurement and monetary and such to
de_DE, but then again LibO handles only LC_PAPER of those. And yes,
a finer granularity of the LibO internal locales that takes also system
settings into account is on my todo list.

  Eike

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