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  1. Bug #926207
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 926207

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

> If the user says that they speak English and live in Switzerland, what is the correct value for LC_NUMERIC?

I'd say, whatever value the installer currently sets for LC_{MESSAGES,CTYPE,COLLATE}.

> Gunnar is proposing changing the semantics

That's what I'd like to avoid for precise at least (i. e. the bit whether numeric should be tied to the language or the region; it is tied to the region right now, so let's not rip this apart at this point in the release cycle).

The net effect should be the same, the change is just which half of the LC_* categories we define to differ from LANG in case the user-selected language doesn't match the language of the LANG locale. Right now we change the "language" part, and with the proposed change we'd change the "region" part.

I might misunderstand what you are saying, of course, but I don't see the semantics change?