Re: Locale: why does Gnumeric think I'm an American?!

[Chris Seaton <chris chrisseaton com>]

Yeah, I fixed it thanks.

I set it in .bashrc.

Before I was trying en_UK.UTF-8 (seemed logical) where of course I 
wanted en_GB.UTF-8.

I don't know which locale people in Northern Island are supposed to use!

Chris Seaton

Nicholas Lamb wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:47:03PM +0100, Chris Seaton wrote:
>
> > What do I have to do to change this?
>
>
> It depends...
>
>
> > I'm using Gnumeric 1.4.3 on Linux 2.6, Fedora 4.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure when I installed I told Fedora I was in the UK (several 
> > times, actually, time zone, keyboard, language...). There doesn't seem 
> > to be any applet in Fedora or Gnome to change my locale settings, so 
> > what do I do? Where does Gnumeric take the hint from? Please don't tell 
> > me it's hardcoded to be American.
>
>
> It's more than possible that you've managed to /install/ the UK locale
> but without actually choosing it as your default.
>
> Check the output of 'locale' as already mentioned in this thread, and
> if it's wrong (should be 'en_GB.UTF-8') you can fix it system wide from
> Desktop -> System Settings -> Language
> simply choose English (Great Britain). If it's not listed then, despite
> your best intentions, you didn't install UK locale support.
>
> You can also edit the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n if you don't like or
> trust Red Hat's config tools.
>
> OTOH if locale reports en_GB.UTF-8 but your new spreadsheets all come
> out with US$ and other oddities then you may have found a bug, which
> you should report to the GNOME Bugzilla iirc.
>
>
> > Do I need to set some environment variables or something? How come 
> > Fedora didn't do that?
>
>
> It worked fine for me, and for many other people. So either you made
> a mistake or you've found a somewhat obscure bug.
>
>
> > What will happen to my existing Gnumeric files? 
> > Will they change to meet my new locale?
>
>
> That's an interesting question, iirc format details (like £ signs) are
> preserved, but this is a tricky area in general. We want to preserve
> meaning, yet we also want to be locale sensitive.
>
> Nick.
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