Locales (WAS: How important are ISO standards)

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
>> Letter is selected by default only for a small number of specific
>> locales.
>
> I'd be surprised if the real problem was anything else than the simple 
> fact that users who just want "an English Fedora" will not know how to 
> localize Fedora for say, France while keeping the english language.
>
> Anaconda isn't very helpful in this either. For example if you choose 
> to install in English language, then select "Paris" on the time map, 
> it doesn't suggest you to switch locale to "en_FR" (which doesn't work 
> BTW), what they actually want is probably to change some LC_* vars to 
> fr_FR, like LC_PAPER and LC_TIME.
>
> How do you actually do that?
> LC_PAPER=\"fr_FR.UTF-8\" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
> is my best guess. And there is no user-friendly way of doing that.
>
> Perhaps an enhancement bug for Anaconda here? Or is it too much detail 
> for an average user? And do apps really respect the LC_* stuff ?
>
> Linus
>
A option in S-C-P is one way of doing it.
Server Settings --> Set default paper/media size to [ users choose the 
paper size they want  ] and S-C-P changes it where it needs to be changed..

Best regard..
                   Johann B.
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