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. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
