Hi Eike, On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:25:51PM +0200, Eike Rathke <er...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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.
I admit probably only a few users read man locale.conf (and probably I'm just too young if there was already such a manpage when I first met this problem ;-) ), on the other hand I still think this sounds like the proper way of solving the situation. By the way, as far as I understand man 7 locale, the LC_COLLATE determines the encoding (and if that's unset LANG), so LC_MESSAGES=C + a utf-8 LANG results in a configuration that "knows" utf-8. > 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 Sure, I agree. :-) > 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. One of my motivations is that the KDE calendar this way still mentions our Hungarian public holidays (maybe GNOME does the same, no idea). > And yes, > a finer granularity of the LibO internal locales that takes also system > settings into account is on my todo list. Nah, I didn't mean to criticise that, I just wanted to share that I think when one sets LANG to en_US and files a bugreport about a wrong default paper size, my answer would be "you asked for it". Miklos _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice