Quite offtopic, but anyway... On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:54:30PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:34:58PM +0200, Miros/law Baran wrote: > > 3.09.2001 pisze Radovan Garabik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > but you have to realize one thing: they are not doing it because of > > > locale. They are doing it because they want to tell their > > > applications to pass 8-bit characters unaffected. > > > > A quite elegant _theory_. Rather untrue. Falsified by me. > > and proved by me :-) > (question was about "most people") > Of all the people I know who are using linux here (about 10), no one > uses (slovak) locale for anything else then allowing to pass > iso-8859-2 chars to/from the console. > They hate, or at least are indifferent to having menus > in their native language. They hate number format in slovak locale.
Why not create a proper en_SK.iso8859-2 locale, with the desired date and number formats? Many people in Hong Kong, for example, are actually also more comfortable with English rather than Chinese in the UI; therefore, I created a custom en_HK.big5hkscs locale for them. Roger
