Marc Haber, on ven. 09 juin 2017 10:57:12 +0200, wrote:
frankly, I don't have a clue whether I am filing this against the
correct package
No problem, we reassign :)
I am a native speaker of German, living in Germany. And I do detest software translated to German since German translations of technical
terms are often clumsy. I would therefore love having my Debian in
English, but with German punctuation, collation order, monetary and date display setting etc.
So what you want is actually LC_LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=en, right?
I guess this is what #842630 ("localechooser: Should support separating language from localization") is about, then: no need for a new locale,
just a need for separating the language from the rest of the locale.
Otherwise we'd end up with a flurry of language/country combination,
that'd be unmaintainable.
frankly, I don't have a clue whether I am filing this against the
correct package
I am a native speaker of German, living in Germany. And I do detest
software translated to German since German translations of technical
terms are often clumsy. I would therefore love having my Debian in
English, but with German punctuation, collation order, monetary and date display setting etc.
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:14:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Marc Haber, on ven. 09 juin 2017 10:57:12 +0200, wrote:
frankly, I don't have a clue whether I am filing this against the
correct package
No problem, we reassign :)
Thanks!
I am a native speaker of German, living in Germany. And I do detest software translated to German since German translations of technical terms are often clumsy. I would therefore love having my Debian in English, but with German punctuation, collation order, monetary and date display setting etc.
So what you want is actually LC_LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=en, right?
If all software was correct, yes. I have a few programs from the GNOME ecosystem that still insist on their German l10n with this setting.
I must admit that I have never fully understood all the locale stuff in
Unix :-(
I guess this is what #842630 ("localechooser: Should support separating language from localization") is about, then: no need for a new locale,
just a need for separating the language from the rest of the locale.
Yes, looks that way.
Otherwise we'd end up with a flurry of language/country combination,
that'd be unmaintainable.
I was just astonished that the Danish get the privilege, and ther
Germans dont.
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:14:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
So what you want is actually LC_LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=en, right?
If all software was correct, yes. I have a few programs from the GNOME ecosystem that still insist on their German l10n with this setting.
I must admit that I have never fully understood all the locale stuff in
Unix :-(
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 12:15:15PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:14:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
So what you want is actually LC_LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=en, right?
If all software was correct, yes. I have a few programs from the GNOME ecosystem that still insist on their German l10n with this setting.
I must admit that I have never fully understood all the locale stuff in Unix :-(
I tried reading up on this again. Which man page should I read aside
from locale (5) and locale(7), which does explain a bunch of LC_foo, but neither LC_LANG nor LANGUAGE?
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