I am from Australia, so therefore would really like to be able to set the regional settings to something similar.
Options I get are basically English US or English UK - ie not real close.
How do I get the correct settings??
eg EnglishAU, metric, dd/mm/yy, xx xxxx xxxx, 24hr (because I like it..), A4, etc.
And what is “C”, the only thing that allows me to even come close??
Thanks.
If you activate and set your distro locale (the steps to do that may slightly differ depending on the distro) to “en_AU.UTF8” you can basically cheat:
and while it works for Numbers, Time, Currency, Measurements, Paper Size, Address, Name Style and Phone Numbers. On Language you get a “Not supported” warning and it may fall back to whatever you have your distro set to fall back to.
You’re experiencing essentially the same issue as was described in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516550. “Australian English” isn’t truly a different language from English, which means you don’t have an opportunity to select Australia as your region for locale purposes.
We’ll have to get this fixed.
In the meantime, you can set LANG=en_AU.UTF8 in ~/.config/plasma-localerc.
What makes “American English” and “British English” selectable as separate languages - is there some special casing for them on the KDE side, or is it the way that the underlying locale database deals with them?
That’s a good question and I don’t know the answer! Because technically “British English” and “American English” aren’t real languages either, but rather proxies for locales.
There is some level of translation support in Plasma for British English - e.g. “Trash” in Dolphin turns into “Wastebin”. Maybe that somehow drives what’s available in the “Language” setting?
