Re: Localisation needs to be improved

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You chose Australia on timezone selection screen.

Anaconda can't handle such specific needs without making GUI
obfuscated, and it works OK for most users already.

Advanced users can customize locale manually. Casual users want less
buttons and get work done faster. I vote for leaving it as is.

On 5/4/08, Rodd Clarkson <rodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>  On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 03:48 +0300, Pavel Shevchuk wrote:
>  > I don't see any Australia-specific options here. You SHOULD NOT get
>  > australian currency or paper format with such locale.
>  >
>  > If i understand you correctly, you should set everything to
>  > en_AU.UTF-8, then override LC_MESSAGES with en_US.UTF-8. It will set
>  > paper and currency to Australian, but leave GUI American english
>  >
>
>
> Yes, my locale output should look as you suggest.
>
>  BUT, I the humble end user shouldn't have to know any of this or do
>  anything to make it so (rather than feed the installer some appropriate
>  information).
>
>  I didn't set the setting this way, anaconda did.  And anaconda has made
>  all these assumptions because I picked a language to use on my system.
>  I also told anaconda I live in Australia, but seemingly that information
>  wasn't that interesting when making assumptions about where I live.
>
>
>
>  R.
>
>
>
>
>  >
>  > On 5/4/08, Rodd Clarkson <rodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 03:23 +0300, Pavel Shevchuk wrote:
>  > >  > Could you paste "locale" output?
>  > >  >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > [rodd@localhost ~]$ locale
>  > >  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  > >  LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
>  > >  LC_ALL=
>  > >  [rodd@localhost ~]$
>  > >
>  > >
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