On 04/23/2012 08:52 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:52 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 21/04/12 12:55, Ed Greshko wrote: >> [cut] >>> Well, I check GNOME and I found that if you click on your name in the upper >>> right and >>> choose System Settings you can choose "Region and Language" and change the >>> layout. >>> Picking United Kingdom (English) results in picking Metric. >> Exactly the problem! I'm not French and I want English measurements to >> be the default for United Kingdom locale settings. > I imagine there might be some kind of controversy over which should be > the default for the U.K., given its schizophrenic approach to the use of > weights and measures. I guess GNOME (or whoever actually sets those > defaults) went with metric because the metric system is more or less > given precedence in most current legislation. > > I suppose someone could hack up a special measurements locale for the > U.K. where short distances are measured in centimetres but long ones in > miles, golf courses are measured in yards but athletic events in metres, > soft drinks measured in litres but alcoholic ones in pints, temperatures > in celsius or farenheit depending on the age of the user (could be > detected via webcam, perhaps?), and so on, but it seems like rather a > lot of work...;)
Of course the OP is only asking for one change to satisfy himself. He isn't asking what you've suggested. And, he hasn't suggested that a bugzilla or RFE needs filing to change the current behavior. So, how about focusing on what he wants for himself? I believe what he wants is a locale where LC_MESSAGES= gives a variable that results in imperial measurements being defined. If that isn't what he wants/needs I would hope he would tell us. He was given 2 avenues which are thought to accomplish what he wants. Personally, I prefer the $HOME/.i18n route. The one method he tried seemed not to work....but he didn't supply more details as to why he thinks it didn't work. -- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. -- Dame Edna Everage -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
