If you move countries and/or you are multilingual, it can be extremely frustrating to use the web.
Some sites force a language based on your system default, others based on geoIP detection, others based on Accept headers, others on who knows what.
Even if I speak multiple languages, it doesn t mean I speak then equally well and it's frustrating that there's not consistency here.
I'm not even getting into the parts of the web at think that USA (I mean the EEUU) is the whole world!
This is the most annoying, because even if I set my system default correctly, and my browser accept headers, and my preference on every website that asks, they will still use the language guessed according to my physical location, not the language I want.
In KDE you can set different regions for different types of settings (Settings -> Region & Language), so unlike in Gnome you can mix and match locales. E.g., Mine is set to the US for everything except "Time" which is set to Canada because I prefer using YYYY-MM-DD for the date but AM/PM for time.
I once mentioned "the odd-numbered days of the week", meaning Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to some Catholic friends and was sharply reminded that the week begins on Sunday.
If you move countries and/or you are multilingual, it can be extremely frustrating to use the web.
Some sites force a language based on your system default, others based on geoIP detection, others based on Accept headers, others on who knows what. Even if I speak multiple languages, it doesn t mean I speak then equally well and it's frustrating that there's not consistency here.
I'm not even getting into the parts of the web at think that USA (I mean the EEUU) is the whole world!
>others based on geoIP detection
This is the most annoying, because even if I set my system default correctly, and my browser accept headers, and my preference on every website that asks, they will still use the language guessed according to my physical location, not the language I want.
In KDE you can set different regions for different types of settings (Settings -> Region & Language), so unlike in Gnome you can mix and match locales. E.g., Mine is set to the US for everything except "Time" which is set to Canada because I prefer using YYYY-MM-DD for the date but AM/PM for time.
> Ireland. actually a great option [...]
Which is why my locale is Ireland. (Denmark is my second choice )
Wouldn't it be great if we could unbundle these preferences and set them to whatever we want?
I once mentioned "the odd-numbered days of the week", meaning Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to some Catholic friends and was sharply reminded that the week begins on Sunday.
I hope you saved the conversation by reminding them that counting begins with zero.
Alas, that was before my software days