also sprach Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> [2009.10.29.0920 +0100]: > I fully agree with that. The locale system on UNIX is well designed, so > you can select different value for the various locale categories. > > In your case the following settings will probably match your use case: > > LC_CTYPE="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="de_CH.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_CH.UTF-8" This is what I have, but Debian provides no way for me to specify this, so I have to do it manually. That's the entire point I was making: I speak English in Switzerland, but d-i will either let me select de_CH or en_US/en_GB as defaults. Neither of those are acceptable defaults for Switzerland, I think. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems save the plankton - eat a whale.
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