[Bug 1024663] Re: Custom regional formats

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Custom regional formats

Status in The "G" Library - GLib:
  New
Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Regional formats should be customizable. Currently the user is capable
  of selecting a locale, and that locale will determine how dates are
  displayed, the first day of the week, etc. However, it is not possible
  to override any of these choices -- it's a 'take it or leave it'
  decision. There are several problems with that:

  1. If the system language is English, and I set the RF to Hungarian,
  the names of months, days will be Hungarian, while the rest of the
  interface remains English, which is confusing.

  2. RF settings apply to the command line too; once again, introducing
  a different date format, names of days and months, which may cause
  scripts to stop working. That may be a problem for developers (or for
  users who download scripts from a developer's page, which, with
  smartphones, Calibre, etc., is not so uncommon as someone might
  think). The settings for the GUI and the command line should be
  distinct.

  3. Very often one would like to change just one setting (A4 paper size
  for printing, Monday as the first day of the week, etc.), which is
  currently not possible.

  I understand there was a similar bug, number 40669. However, the fix
  only added the Regional Formats tab, and ignored part of the problem
  of the reporter: "it's impossible to configure a system that uses
  English GUI strings and the rest in native format."

  This functionality has been available in Windows and KDE forever.
  Ubuntu has parted ways with Gnome with regard to the DE, and it would
  be very welcome if we could also say goodbye to the Gnome mindset and
  actually give some power to the user. After all, even smartphones,
  which are definitely consumer devices, allow this type of
  customization.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Jul 14 11:32:04 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-03 (71 days ago)

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