https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465449
Bug ID: 465449
Summary: Cover all English variants with warning about English
above other languages
Classification: Applications
Product: systemsettings
Version: 5.26.5
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_regionandlang
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The regionandlang KCM has a warning specific to American English that states:
"Putting American English above other languages will cause undesired behavior
in some applications. If you would like your system to use American English,
remove all other languages."
Users of e.g. Fedora are forced to choose an English variant among many, so
American English isn't always in the language list. Additionally, this warning
also applies to any other variant of English like en_GB or en_AU just as much
as en_US. Therefore I propose that this warning should be displayed whenever
any English variant is in the list, not just en_US, and state:
"Putting English above other languages will cause undesired behavior in some
applications. If you would like your system be entirely in English, remove all
other languages."
In Bug 465373 a reasoning was given:
"Why we only have warning for en_US? Because en_US is KDE's default locale, in
KDE, en_US == C. That's means any language below en_US won't be displayed."
All of that is true, but it's also true if en_GB is the top language and the
user adds another language. Their system won't be entirely in English any more.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Graphics Platform: X11
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