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?
Thanks - this solution works - not sure why you can enforce en-AU as a language using the config file but not the GUI, but, in case it wasn’t clear to a non-native AU, it does need the language fix as well as the locale stuff (all of which you can do manually via GUI) because things like office editors offer formatting etc based on language vs the locale options (tested on LibreOffice, which wanted to format currency as GBP even though AUD was selected as locale currency, but which worked correctly once language was changed to en_AU via the config file as you suggested).
Note that this setting appears to be fixed in Fedora 44 KDE Plasma.
In System Settings…Region & Langauge, shows on mine “Australian English” and all other values like “Date/Currency..etc” are all correct.
I never touched the config file and mine was an upgrade to new version and not a fresh install.
Interesting… was still an issue on my fresh install yesterday even after system updates. Did KDE force you through the post-OS install reconfiguration? That’s when the problem arose for me … I’m thinking maybe you escaped this overwrite since you already had KDE configured.
No. I used the Konsole and dnf commands in Fedora KDE for the upgrade as per the Fedora documentation. No reconfiguration was required once I logged into the GUI. The only change required was to change it from the SDDM Login Manager to the new Wayland Login Manager. It “wasn’t required” for a functional OS but SDDM had given me random problems on my installation.
This band-aid you provide doesn’t work. This is what I did and now everything is in miles and spelt how Americans spell. I have a lot of writing to do due by tomorrow and now my system and spell check tools are making it appear that I cannot spell. When you say we need to fix this, what do you mean? How do we fix it as I need to get back to what I need to do.
Used Plasma over a decade, was here in the dark days of version 3 & 4 where most things were broken, never had broken language support during that time. What changed that broke this?
Just checking up again to see what this fix is you’re talking about? What needs fixing? My dates are 04/31/24, there isn’t a 31st month. I can’t write any essays or assignments as I’ll be marked down for poor spelling and probable computer literacy skills as everything is in US spellings and we get marked down for US spelling in Australian Trade Colleges and Universities. Everything is all in miles and pounds, I also can’t just change to UK because I will still be on miles and pounds.
What is this fix, this has been an issue for months now but no one has shared how to fix this properly. I have my system set to en-AU like you said but everything is still in US. What can we do to fix this.
Does anyone know if LXQt supports en-AU because I really need to be able to use my computer today?
If you want more volunteers to contribute to Plasma and KDE technologies you need to tell us what is the root problem so us who are experiencing the issue can investigate.
This cryptic “we need to fix this” doesn’t give us much to investigate nor does it give us much hope that KDE is taking issues seriously.
I don’t understand how I’ve been using KDE for 15 years and never had an issue with en-AU but with further research Australians have been complaining about this as early as 2009 across various distros.
Why hasn’t this been fixed during this time, why did it work for myself and various other colleagues but others going by reports online? What did you guys change that broke it so we can go investigate and fix this and if possible submit the fix to KDE for merger.
It isn’t clear yet. I offered some specific suggestions and ideas in English (Australia) missing - #12 by ngraham; please try those and then respond in that thread. Hopefully we can figure out what’s going on.
Thanks!
