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langpack-locales package

  1. Bug #208548
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 208548

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 208548] Re: en_SE locale needed to get correct weekdays in Sweden

Kristoffer Lundén [2009-04-22 18:05 -0000]:
> 1. don't decide weekday based on *language* choice of the installing
> user, because that has nothing to do with it

We don't.

> 2. set the *default* based on location, which has everything to do with it

We do. That's why a locale has a country in it, since the conventions
of when the week starts are usually country specific. sv_SE does start
the week on Monday, while en_UK starts the week on Sundays.

> 3. let users change the default in case it is guessed wrong (this would be enough as a workaround)

That's indeed the bit which we don't have a GUI for (which sets the
LC_MESSAGES/LC_TIME conventions for you).

> However, for this to happen, we first need a sudden outbreak of common
> sense in this issue.

Please stop trolling. I already acknowledged several times that such a
GUI is missing, and explained how you can locally configure it for
your system. Mixing different languages/locales is not something a
casual user is concerned with, so it's not the OMGkittensdie issue you
make it appear as.