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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Query about why $KDE_LANG is required instead of $LANG or
From:       Jon Grant <jg () jguk ! org>
Date:       2006-11-11 15:43:37
Message-ID: 4555EFA9.5050407 () jguk ! org
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Hi,

Thiago Macieira elucidated on 06/11/06 20:18:
> Jon Grant wrote:
>> Ok, so how about simply seeding the kdelobals [Locale] with defaults
>> imported from the environment variables available when the kdeglobals
>> [Locale] section is not present?
>>
>>  -- At present I end up with a "C" locale when I start KDE on a fresh
>> user account; despite all my locale env variables being en_GB.UTF-8.
> 
> That's a good idea. But the kdeglobals file doesn't have to change -- only 
> the defaults in KDE 4 do.

Ah ok, so kdeglobals only uses the defaults if no existing [Locale]
section is present?
-- if I understand you correctly that means we just needs code to
populate the defaults with the fields from Environment variables then.

Shall I file this as a wishlist with this information? I can look into
writing the patch when I get time.


Paper as Metric A4 or US Letter can be inferred from the country,
which means we'd have either a hard coded table or a file read somewhere
containing the mapping.

Paper from the county in LC_PAPER

Metric measurement from: LC_MEASUREMENT

 £ Pound Sterling from: LC_MONETARY

Language from: LANG

Numbers and thousands separators from: LC_NUMERIC

Then the populated [Locale] can be saved in kdeglobals.

Cheers
Jon
 
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