I just installed fedora 44 plasma edition and I enabled detailed system information and usage statistics. In the locale info it reports region as United States. Why is the region tied to the system language. I can’t find a setting to change the region. The only way is to convert the system to my local language. Isn’t that making the statistic inaccurate since it reports all English US installations as US based, when it should be like “language : ‘English’”, “region: ‘country not tied to installation language’”
What usage statistics are you referring to?
I’m not aware of Fedora collecting this type of statistic.
In System Settings/Region & Language you can set each locale category individually.
But there is not a setting for your location if that is what you are asking about as far as I know.
I’m talking about kde plasma user feedback which is in all kde desktops, not specific to fedora. Also there is language but no region specific setting.
Just curious, what’s the path to the file where you’re seeing a region listed? I just checked the sent data for plasmashell that’s linked on the System Settings > User Feedback page, and the log files there don’t even show a region (or any locale-related info) being reported at all.
Well sorry for providing the wrong data, the locale is reported from plasma discover, not plasma shell at /home/myusername/.local/share/discover/kuserfeedback/audit/. Sorry for providing wrong info. By the way this is the part of locale reporting in the log:
“locale”: {
“data”: {
“language”: “English”,
“region”: “United States”
},
“description”: “The current region and language settings.”,
“telemetryMode”: “DetailedSystemInformation”
},
In man 7 locale the locale name is defined as:
>A locale name is typically of the form language[_territory][.code‐
set][@modifier], where language is an ISO 639 language code, territory
is an ISO 3166 country code, and codeset is a character set or encoding
identifier like ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. For a list of all supported locales, try “locale -a” (see locale(1)).
What you see as “region” in the file is “territory” in the above.
It does not mean your location.
I’m using en_GB.UTF-8 so it should show Great Britain for my territory.
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Oh okay thanks, I though the region was like the country or area not language region. Sorry for the meaningless post.