Locales question

Jaap A. Haitsma jaap_haitsma at zonnet.nl
Sun Oct 5 23:24:03 UTC 2003


Hi,

I have the following question. I'm always logging in with US English as 
the language.  I'm Dutch, but I get confused with a desktop and programs 
in Dutch. However I would like to have date / money / number/ time etc. 
etc. in the Dutch format.

I added variables to /etc/sysconfig/i18n to make all the locale 
variables Dutch except the language. However programs like mozilla mail
still keep the american date format. If I log in with Dutch as the 
language the format is good, but then I have all my programs in Dutch :-(.

Anybody know how to solve this? BTW a graphical tool to set these things 
would also be nice.

This is the output locale gives after I changed i18n

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=nl_NL.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Seems OK to me, but mozilla mail still does not change to a dutch date 
format even if I change LANG also to nl_NL.UTF-8 and login with American 
English.

Thanks

Jaap





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