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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