On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:29:49AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 06:36 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Far be it from me to make extra work for the localization-config
maintainer. And I agree with you that locales are exactly for the
purpose of setting things that
On Monday 24 July 2006 07:17, Rick Thomas wrote:
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
specified US-EastCoast timezone, and in general did everything I
could to indicate my location in the USA.
On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 24 July 2006 07:17, Rick Thomas wrote:
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
specified US-EastCoast timezone, and in general did everything I
plan is to also support en_US.
I assume this means that if I do whatever magic is required to get
en_US locale, then I'll get letter in /etc/papersize. What if I
choose C locale?
This should be discussed with the localization-config maintainer but
that would require extra code in
On Monday 24 July 2006 20:16, you wrote:
I assume this means that if I do whatever magic is required to get
en_US locale, then I'll get letter in /etc/papersize. What if I
choose C locale?
For C locale, localization-config is not run (which IMO makes sense) and
you get the _package_ default
Christian Perrier wrote:
So, if you actually want a paper size adapted to your country, I'd
recommend to set the locale properly.
ACK.
This can be a nice _default_.
But keep in mind that the papersize depends only on the piece of paper
which I put into (one of) my printer(s).
Helmut
On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:
plan is to also support en_US.
I assume this means that if I do whatever magic is required to get
en_US locale, then I'll get letter in /etc/papersize. What if I
choose C locale?
This should be discussed with the localization-config
Far be it from me to make extra work for the localization-config
maintainer. And I agree with you that locales are exactly for the
purpose of setting things that depend on country and language. I
guess my problem is that (for the intended application of this
system) I want a locale
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 06:36 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Far be it from me to make extra work for the localization-config
maintainer. And I agree with you that locales are exactly for the
purpose of setting things that depend on country and language. I
guess my problem is that
Do what you want, but keep in mind that en_US, and every other natural
language locale except C, messes with the sort collating order to
satisfy some librarian's idea of 'niceness'. It robs me of the
I would rather say that the English locales cope with the accepted
collation order of the
Package: installation-reports
Sorry! I don't know which package creates the /etc/papersize file,
so I'm submitting this as Package: installation-reports.
During the install process, I selected the C locale early on.
Later, when asked, I indicated I have a US-English keyboard. I also
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