[Ubuntu-ch] Page and date format in US-installation

[Wolf Geldmacher]

Hi Simon,

The following might help you:

- You can set a default paper format in /etc/papersize, see "man 5 papersize". This
   should take care of all programs that do printing.

- You can set system wide default values for the time and paper format by setting
 	LC_TIME="de_CH.UTF-8"
   and
   	LC_PAPER="de_CH.UTF-8"
   in /etc/default/locale, leaving LANG="en_US" in the same file - see "man locale".
   The specific settings should override the generic setting in the same file.

Your mileage may vary, though, as not all programs handle these settings correctly.

Cheers,
Wolf

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Simon Schneebeli wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have just updated my computer from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 (actually did a
> clean install and then copied my files back on my computer).
>
> One thing that I have never managed to configure properly is the
> standard page and date format. Since my installation is in US-en, page
> format is always Letter, and the date is MM/DD/YYYY instead of DD.MM.YYYY.
>
> I just wondered whether there is any "switch" to easily change this once
> and for all and for all programmes without affecting the language settings.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>         Simon
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