> I'm afraid that bind regional setting to interface language is not > correct. For example, I prefer the English language interface (it's > easier to write bug reports, search in Google documentation), but I > need the russian regional settings (number format, date format and > time format) for input controls. Expected behaiour that regional > settings would be inherited from OS settings.
My claim is that if you want English language with Russian regional settings then browsers must report “en-ru” in navigator.language. My reasoning is that many website authors use navigator.language to infer locale. So, if navigator.language reports “en-us”, you will get US regional settings on many websites. Geoff