Re: [SLE] Language selection

Per Jessen wrote:
> 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.

Well, it doesn't define your curency symbol, but there are vanishly few
choices:-

Look at what it _does_ say: those choices should be the ones offered by
Yast (along with other) when configuring locale.

Of course, timezone doesn't tell everything, but it tells a lot, just as
currency does: if you normally use Francs, you're not part of the EU,
your date format is not mm/dd/yy

Oh, your timezone also suggests that the local a few km (you don't use
miles) up the road are likely to speak with quite a different accent: if
you know that my WST applies to Australia/Perth, you on't be surprised
to hear that my wife and I, from opposite sides of our country, speak
with the same accent:-)

Accent might be an element of locale not used atm, but when speach
syntheses gets going, you really do not want to use an American accent
for Australians!



>
>> 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.

Consider the general case, not you specically: "Per" suggests to me
you're from Scandinavia, maybe Denmark, but "John" (with variations such
as Juan, Ivan) is used all over the world, and people often adopt the
local variant when they move to another country.


Applying some logic, some consistency check, would have made the choice
of UK currency and an Australian timezone relatively difficult: while I
can imagine someone migh want our timezone coupled (by default,
maintaining some accounts in a foreign currency is different) with a
foreign currency, I can't explain _why_ they'd want to.



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