A two-part question: a) I have set KDE to show my date and number preferences (yyyy-mm-dd format, and the space as a thousands separator) and that is fine as far as it goes. However, GnuCash still picks up my standard locale settings. How can I change the settings for Gnome apps (I don't normally use Gnome itself, but if there is a global way of doing it I'd like to know)?
b) Following above, the KDE settings obviously have no effect on console usage, so how can I change individual settings (numeric, date, etc.) to apply to the CLI? As an extension, how do I change the overall system locale? Presumably this is taken from the locale chosen at the start of the Mandrake installation, but can I change it later? Who gets to decide the particular values withing locales for each country? I find it frustrating that the UK settings force the comma for separating thousands, even though I've been using the space for 30+ years, ever since our school text books went that way around 1969. Other European countries seem well on the way to dropping the period as a thousands separator (going by French/Belgian/German newspapers that I've read), so what settings do their locales now have for this? And can I edit the UK files to change individual LC_ settings to what I want them to be? (SuSE had a configuration facility that made this easy). Chris
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