Help a little, make Fedora 10 a lot better

Pavel Shevchuk stlwrt at gmail.com
Mon May 5 09:40:37 UTC 2008


On 5/5/08, Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au> wrote:
>
>  > We're not there (yet)
>  > =====================
>  >
>  > Such as… fonts. Fedora inherited from Red Hat Linux an impeccable
>  > American server OS pedigree. Unfortunately it also inherited
>  > its American server OS limits. Massive non-English Linux desktop
>  > deployments often use Debian or Debian derivatives. Meanwhile we discuss
>  > English locales support.
>
>
> Are you talking about the fact that I've raised issues with being stuck
>  with Letter paper because I use US english?

Paper format is set by:

LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"


>  That might be my issue, but that isn't the problem as far as I see it.
>  This is as much a problem for anyone that wants to use some other
>  language than english, but lives in the US and is stuff with A4 instead
>  of letter.
>
>  We might be discussing locales support, but it's got nothing to do with
>  english.  It's about the ability to use a language and live somewhere
>  and not have assumptions about the second because of the first.
>
>  R.
>  --
>  "It's a fine line between denial and faith.
>   It's much better on my side"
>
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