https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982
--- Comment #230 from Borden <i...@bordenrhodes.com> --- (In reply to brenbarn from comment #218) > It sounds like what you're saying is, "if we fix it in KDE, it will be > broken in non-KDE apps". But if we don't fix it in KDE, then it will be > broken for all apps, including KDE and non-KDE apps. I would rather have it > work the way I want at least some of the time than none of the time. To say > it's "not fair to the user" to have it work some of the time and not all of > the time seems a bit disingenuous. It's also not fair to the user to have > it work none of the time. +1 . We can either have a 60% that'll be good enough most users soon, or a 100% solution never, and it seems that some people are saying "Let's wait for the impossible to not happen." (In reply to Jeremy/starcraft.man from comment #8) > Nobody wants > to see their clocks or currency or decimals in a format other than what they > expect. Some countries even have multiple standards due to regional/language > differences... Canada's got its own Wikipedia page on it! > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Canada In addition to the fact that POSIX has invented and enforced standards that don't exist in countries, it's even worse for people like me who want to use their own standards. I set my dictionaries to UK because I use the King's English. I use UK date formats because they're cleaner than North American formats, but, unlike Europe, I start my week on a Sunday as the Abrahamic God intended. My functional and reporting currency is CAD $, not GBP. There is no POSIX standard that will ever accommodate me because of how I mix and match formats. Furthermore, over 20% of people living in Canada were not born in Canada, which means that they are probably used to using other formats that aren't "Canadian" (which, I said earlier, isn't even defined). To say nothing of any Canadian born before 1960 who grew up in school learning Imperial weights and measures instead of Metric. Point is, even if KDE somehow managed to 'fix' the POSIX standard, it still wouldn't work for most people! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
