If you move countries and/or you are multilingual, it can be extremely frustrating to use the web.
Some sites force a language based on your system default, others based on geoIP detection, others based on Accept headers, others on who knows what.
Even if I speak multiple languages, it doesn t mean I speak then equally well and it's frustrating that there's not consistency here.
I'm not even getting into the parts of the web at think that USA (I mean the EEUU) is the whole world!
In KDE you can set different regions for different types of settings (Settings -> Region & Language), so unlike in Gnome you can mix and match locales. E.g., Mine is set to the US for everything except "Time" which is set to Canada because I prefer using YYYY-MM-DD for the date but AM/PM for time.
I once mentioned "the odd-numbered days of the week", meaning Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to some Catholic friends and was sharply reminded that the week begins on Sunday.
If you move countries and/or you are multilingual, it can be extremely frustrating to use the web.
Some sites force a language based on your system default, others based on geoIP detection, others based on Accept headers, others on who knows what. Even if I speak multiple languages, it doesn t mean I speak then equally well and it's frustrating that there's not consistency here.
I'm not even getting into the parts of the web at think that USA (I mean the EEUU) is the whole world!
> Ireland. actually a great option [...]
Which is why my locale is Ireland. (Denmark is my second choice )
Wouldn't it be great if we could unbundle these preferences and set them to whatever we want?
In KDE you can set different regions for different types of settings (Settings -> Region & Language), so unlike in Gnome you can mix and match locales. E.g., Mine is set to the US for everything except "Time" which is set to Canada because I prefer using YYYY-MM-DD for the date but AM/PM for time.
I once mentioned "the odd-numbered days of the week", meaning Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to some Catholic friends and was sharply reminded that the week begins on Sunday.