On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:22 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 23/04/12 15:19, Ed Greshko wrote: > [cut] > > > > Of course the OP is only asking for one change to satisfy himself. > > He isn't asking what you've suggested. And, he hasn't suggested that > > a bugzilla or RFE needs filing to change the current behavior. > > > > So, how about focusing on what he wants for himself? > > Thanks, Ed. > > > > I believe what he wants is a locale where LC_MESSAGES= gives a > > variable that results in imperial measurements being defined. If > > that isn't what he wants/needs I would hope he would tell us. > > > > He was given 2 avenues which are thought to accomplish what he wants. > > Personally, I prefer the $HOME/.i18n route. > > > > The one method he tried seemed not to work....but he didn't supply > > more details as to why he thinks it didn't work. > > Sorry for not responding more quickly. :-) > I'm time sharing between a wife in Intensive Care in the nearby > hospital, a needy dog that doesn't understand that her walker is away > and trying to make sense of Fedora and GNOME! > > I shall try the .i18n suggestion later today. In the absence of an > intelligent option for the system user, I don't accept that non-English > personnel should seek to impose an alien, simplistic numbering system on > such as myself. However I could stick with Ubuntu, despite Unity. :-) To change the locale settings that are being discussed here in GNOME, you can run gnome-control-center region formats (or navigate there manually in the UI). Hope that helps, and hope your wife gets better soon! Matthias -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
