[Bug 82009] $LANG is not set by the KDE locate settings

[Oceanwatcher]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82009


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--- Comment #11 from Oceanwatcher <sub wisnaes com>  2010-08-07 21:48:08 ---
Whatever happens, I think we should all agree that the situation we have right
now can not continue.

There are software developers that do not use anything else than locale to be
sure they do not have to do anything special for KDE, Gnome, Xfce etc.

So whatever is done, it should be able to configure the following (taken from
my own situation):

I am Norwegian, using Norwegian keyboard. (nb-NO)
I live in Brazil, so I need Brazilian units - Metric, Celsius, currency=BRL
etc. (pt-BR)
We speak English in the house and all computers use English. So EVERYTHING
including the name of days of the week in a calendar (and months) in all
interfaces must be in English. (en-US or en-GB)

My problem right now is that I have some programs where almost everything is
correct, but the name of days and months come up in Brazilian Portuguese.

Now - if I set units in KDE to Brazilian, why should not the corresponding
settings in locale not follow?

It is all about make a system possible to use by average users. How do you
explain to an average user that they have to edit language settings in the GUI,
and then in a CLI?

And if a mix of KDE, Gnome etc. worries you? Why not make a setting in KDE
(that defaults to YES) "Update locale when I change regional settings in KDE?".

Advanced users running multiple DE's can go and set it to NO. The average user
will never need to think about it - it just behaves as expected.

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