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 -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD : 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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