Re: [tlug] "Locale" urrrgh

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 12/07/07, Brian Chandler <brian@example.com> wrote:

> <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>

I agree. I get ticket at applications that do not let me control my
date formats irrespective of my locale. I prefer YYYY/mm/dd, not the
US's idiotic mm/dd/YYYY and the Euro Zone's unfortunate dd/mm/YYYY
(only unfortunate that the US pissed in the pool with their moronic
format). I set my locale to en_UK or _IE so that spell-checking works
the way I expect, but I like the JP dates: YYYY年mm月dd日. Just too bad
everyone cannot read those three simple kanji. :)

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Cheers,
Josh