On 2017-06-09 12:15, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:14:20AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Marc Haber, on ven. 09 juin 2017 10:57:12 +0200, wrote: > > > frankly, I don't have a clue whether I am filing this against the > > > correct package > > > > No problem, we reassign :) > > Thanks! > > > > I am a native speaker of German, living in Germany. And I do detest > > > software translated to German since German translations of technical > > > terms are often clumsy. I would therefore love having my Debian in > > > English, but with German punctuation, collation order, monetary and date > > > display setting etc. > > > > So what you want is actually LC_LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=en, right? > > If all software was correct, yes. I have a few programs from the GNOME > ecosystem that still insist on their German l10n with this setting. > > I must admit that I have never fully understood all the locale stuff in > Unix :-( > > > I guess this is what #842630 ("localechooser: Should support separating > > language from localization") is about, then: no need for a new locale, > > just a need for separating the language from the rest of the locale. > > Yes, looks that way. > > > Otherwise we'd end up with a flurry of language/country combination, > > that'd be unmaintainable. > > I was just astonished that the Danish get the privilege, and ther > Germans dont.
This locale is there for historical reason. It has been added more than 20 years ago has a hack to provide "day, month, year" ordering, used in most European countries except UK. DK has been chosen at that time. A country from the Eurozone would probably have been better, but that was not something really predictible at that time. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net