While the blog post you linked to notes the Ubuntu specific patch, it's wrong about the main reason why it was applied. As is stated in bug #887395 it was for consistency reasons, considering that qt applications were claimed to use comma as the decimal separator in case of an en_ZA locale.
That, OTOH, makes me hesitate. From what I have observed, the behaviour of qt applications with respect to locale handling is anything but convincing. For instance it seems like qt apps let the LC_NUMERIC locale category determine the display language, which is plain wrong. An example: http://askubuntu.com/questions/447454/how-to-change-the-ui-language-on- clementine/447468#447468 If they instead used LC_NUMERIC for its intended purpose, we wouldn't have this problem now... @Martin: What's your view on this? Do we have strong enough reasons to keep that patch? It hasn't yet been applied upstream after more than 2.5 years. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090288 Title: The locale file for en_ZA appears to have an error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1090288/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
