Re: locales design and timezone (was: dpkg-reconfigure unable to change greeter locale)
David Wright (HE12025-12-27):
> I'm aware of that. You wrote "Nowadays, I would say most system have
> most standard locales installed": I interpreted "installed" as those
> chosen from the list and compiled, rather than all the list entries.
I did. Most people do never see that list.
Also, the fact that locales needs to be “compiled” and it takes so much
time is silly.
> It might help those not knowing the name of the "normal" papersize for
> a particular country.
I have already answered to that:
> > Indeed, but what you describe is a job for a tool for easy system
> > configuration: tell it the country, and it will fill-in the various
> > settings.
> It can make the scheme more extensible: keywords
> could be added for, say, envelope or book sizes that vary territorially.
Making a stupid system more extensible only creates an extensible stupid
system.
> Using the paper name itself could lead to ambiguities when the same
> name is used in some countries for paper of a different size.
Practical examples?
> If that bugs you, again, you might write a variant so you can have both
> fr_FR@mypaper and fr_FR@isotimedate, or whatever.
Sigh.
The fact that it needs to be fixed is hardly proof that the system is
good. Quite the opposite, in fact.
What is your point?
--
Nicolas George
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