[tlug] "Locale" urrrgh

[Brian Chandler <brian@example.com>]

<rant>What idiotic nonsense! I do not _have_ a "locale" - I live in 
Japan, I am a UK citizen, I read English, Japanese, and music (not in 
that order), I drive on the left, usually, here, I handle three 
currencies normally, I write dates in the ISO standard format, I write 
sqrt(2) as 1.414... and my hair parts on the right.</rant>

Anyway, I gave up trying to get oocalc (against which I am prejudiced by 
its silly name) working, copied the spreadsheet to Xubuntu, and opened 
it in gnumeric. Not all formatting was preserved, but I can cope with 
that. However, I now seem to have comma as my decimal separator. Hmm, 
well somewhere along the line I set something to "English in Denmark", 
which I read in an impeccable source (the Web, I think) was the Correct 
thing to do. Unfortunately I can't now find anywhere in Xubuntu with 
"locale"/localisation settings, and I can't find any such settings in 
Gnumeric either. (I did find something that suggested that gnumeric just 
"reads it all in from your 'locale'"...)

Grateful for hints on how to investigate this (or of course Answers, 
like, 'It's a bug in gnumeric'), and any ideas on ways of escaping the 
"locale" nonsense...

Brian Chandler
http://imaginatorium.org