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In gnome-control-center 3.2's region & language panel, no matter what I do, if I try to set everything to "French (Canada)" I end up with: - "Français" as the language ["French"] - "Canada (français)" as the format ["Canada (French)"] - "Canada (français)" as the layout ["Canada (French)"] The problem is the first one. If I go in a terminal and "echo $LANG", I get "fr_FR.utf8" instead of "fr_CA.utf8". If, in the "language" tab, I click the button to add "français (Canada)" as my locale, it will look as if it worked, but - it will not actually apply it - if you close and start gnome-control-center again, it disappears again This has nasty side-effects such as the fact that LibreOffice thinks I'm in France, and thus uses the A4 paper size by default instead of the US "Letter" paper size used in Canada. I presume this kind of scenario may affect other locales too.
From what I understand, there are two problems at work here: 1) The locale changes are not applied until you logout and relogin, and there is nothing to tell the user about that. Can the locale changes be applied immediately? If not, the control center should ask the user to logout (like packagekit does in some cases) to apply the changes. 2) LibreOffice (and possibly other applications) parses the $LANG environment variable to figure out what kind of paper sizes it should use... the problem is that if I set GNOME3 to be in "Spanish", it will set LANG to be es_ES.utf8... and LibreOffice will use european paper sizes, yet I'm not in Europe. 2.2) Applications such as Libreoffice don't actually read the "formats" (ex: date, currencies, and numbering standards) set by gnome control center. I'm not sure if bug #2 is a bug in libreoffice or gnome. The fact that it basically "invites" you to use one of the default languages may cause problems like this.
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