Locale issue and some comments

[Nikola Šnele]

I am having the same problem. I have always used regional settings for
Serbia and English for language.


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Dimitris Kardarakos <d.kardarakos at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi everyone and thanks for your work.
>
> A few days ago I opened the following KDE bug:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335301
>
> As mentioned in the bug report, the issue is that setting country to
> Greece and language to English in "System Settings" I end up with an
> invalid ~/.kde/env$setlocale.sh script and, as a result, an invalid system
> locale.
>
> KDE correctly commented that it is a Kubuntu issue, so I opened the
> underneath:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1322968
>
> I would like to mention that I totally disagree with the response I got:
> Won't Fix, "Invalid country language combinations lead to invalid locales."
>
> From a user viewpoint, I consider Country=Greece and Language=English as a
> valid configuration. And as mentioned in KDE bug "We set and manage
> regional format settings and translation languages separately, allowing
> combinations to be mixed and matched as the user wants", it seems that KDE
> support such a setting.
>
> From a technical viewpoint, I think that users' invalid settings should
> not lead to invalid configurations; if settings were invalid, users should
> be prevented from selecting them (in most cases).
>
> From a moral viewpoint, which is main the reason I am sending this e-mail,
> I consider the response as offensive. I have been using Kubuntu for the
> last 4 years, I have translated Kubuntu documentation to Greek in Userbase,
> I have tried to let my friends give Kubuntu a try, so, I consider myself
> somehow as part of the Kubuntu community. The only reason I have mentioned
> this is because I consider this issue as a major one for a portion of
> Kubuntu users in Greece (either existing or potential users).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dimitris
>
>
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