https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340982

--- Comment #184 from Smittie <bugs....@smittieandcompany.com> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #182)
> To my knowledge, fixing this requires one of the following:
> 1. Change the Qt locale system to support the feature
> 2. Abandon the-in Qt locale system for this and implement a completely
> custom system, like the KLocale system we had in the KDE 4 days but moved
> away from in favor of QLocale
> 
> Either one would be a huge amount of work.
> 
> I wasn't around for the KDE 4 days, but if I had been, I probably would have
> been against abandoning KLocale (which could do this) for QLocale (which
> can't). That switch also introduced Bug 394698, which is the other major
> annoyance with this KCM.
> 
> So in retrospect I personally think that switch may have been a mistake, but
> what's done is done. Hopefully we can learn from that mistake and do better
> in the future. Since fixing this is not a trivial task, it will probably
> take a while and require a senior developer.

Then (as cat22 noted in comment #181) this should be the explanation in the
*CLOSED - WILL NOT FIX* resolution. It's ridiculous that this bug sits open
with no intent to fix it.

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