Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:48, Robert Gomułka wrote: > As you can see, there are two potential problems: > 1. Date is always in english, where it should be in configured > locales in phrases. Since this is a KDE application, it probably takes the date format from the KDE Control Centre rather than from your command-line locale configuration (arguably, the Control Centre localisation configuration should just be a frontend to locale, but that's a whole different discussion). (You seem to suggest your KDE is set to Polish, though, so I am a bit surprised that the day and month names appear to be in English.) > 2. The rest of the line is always in polish, whereas I would like to > use english version for english e-mails. As I understand it, that's because KMail can only be configured to handle one set of phrases at a time, so whichever language you have selected for editing in the phrases dialogue when you apply the settings will be the one chosen for all messages. Ideally, the phrase set should be linked to the choice of dictionary in the composing window, and this not being the case is a problem for us multilinguals. > The question is - do I do anything wrong? Or should I report the bug > instantly? I would classify this as a wishlist bug and clarify the wishes as: 1) Selecting dictionaries in the composer window should affect the set of phrases used. 2) The %D variable (and other localisation-affected variables) should be expanded according to the appropriate format for the language in whose phrases it appears, regardless of the selected KDE or command-line locale. Now, there are one or two problems with these suggestions. Firstly, what happens when someone starts editing a message with one dictionary selected and then changes the dictionary? This should be possible to overcome using regular expressions. Secondly, language alone is not always sufficient to determine the appropriate date format. I am not sure what to suggest to overcome this obstacle. Perhaps someone with more experience in localisation issues could weigh in on the matter? -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-kde.
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