Per Jessen wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
As I recall, when I installed SUSE 10 on my laptop I chose "English-UK" as it's close to what's spoken here in Australia.
Now I find software thinks I'm in the home of fog, AKA Britain, whereas I'm really in the home of sunshine, aka Perth.
What really bugged me was starting gnucash and finding it want to use pommy quids instead of Aussie Royals (alright, we didn't call the rowals, but we nearly did. Really) aka dollars.
This is because you didn't also change the locale when you opted for English-UK. You can change the locale to en_AU.
Now I could just change that to en_AU.UTF-8, but it's not one of the variants of English listed in /etc/sysconfig/language
Use YasT. I have the option in SUSE 10.0.
I think I've done that now... Yast behaved most oddly. First, it complained I had no installation source. Then, when I was trying to get out of that to check my installation sources, it appeared to go through the motions of installing something... We have, I think, a problem with the definition of locale. Surely, I'm not alone in thinking that when I have set my timezone (to Australia/Perth) I've configured my locale. Here's a dictionary definition: locale n : the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) [syn: venue, locus] I read a little further and find this: locale <programming> A geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc. Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation. The second will escape most non-computing people, and a lot of those who think themselves expert with computers. Once _I_ have chosen Australia/Perth, the software should _know_ our currency, our language, our alphabet and character sets. Now, I know there are multilingual nations: we regularly play some of them at cricket, but Australia isn't one of them. When I started up Yast just now, I saw separate choices for "Time and Date" and "Language." Both of those are elements of 'locale," and Yast should have one configuration tool to set both.