Re: [SLE] Language selection

John Summerfield wrote:

>> Not at all. Timezone and locale may be related, but one does not
>> imply the other. My timezone is CET - what does that tell you about
>> my locale?
> You probably don't speak any variety of Chinese, Urdu, Japanese or
> Hindi:-) Just that statement rules out languages spoken by over 1/3 of
> the people on planet Earth today.
>
> Probably, you have a fair skin not dark, English isn't your first
> language, are (culturally) Christian not Shinto, use Euros not Pesos
> or Dongs and don't normally eat grubs or snakes.

So, in effect the timezone tells you very little about my locale - which
includes things like number-format, thousands-separator, time-format,
and currency-symbol.

> Your choice of language (for installation) and keyboard would go far
> to informing one better about you.

Probably not - I usually use English for installation, and I use a
US-english keyboard for the moment. But we're digressing.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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