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[Bug 1440275] Re: Ubuntu GNOME only allows regional format setting for US, UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ

 

My problem, as linked to from comment #12, is that the Region & Language
panel does not list India (English). Even if it lists a non-English
format such as Korean as mentioned in comment #10, it still does not
list any English formats other than the few noted in the OP. Installing
language packs for Hindi and Bengali, for instance, lists the respective
formats for India, but some English formats, for example, India,
Nigeria, Zambia, etc., do not have specific language pack packages, and
are not listed. On other distributions, the Region & Language panel uses
the languages and formats selected by the user or installed on the
system. For example, on Arch and its derivatives, the formats generated
by locale-gen from /etc/locale.gen and listed by locale -a are all
listed in the Region & Language panel. On Ubuntu (GNOME), although
locale-gen generates all English locales and locale -a lists them, they
are not listed in the Region & Language panel.
(https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141124)

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Title:
  Ubuntu GNOME only allows regional format setting for US, UK, Canada,
  Australia, and NZ

Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-desktop3 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I installed Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 Beta 2. I set the system locale to
  Korean language, which worked okay. When I tried to set regional
  format (date, time, currency, number, metric, etc.), however, the
  options are only limited to 5 regions: US, UK, Canada, Australia, New
  Zealand. I do live in the US, but I want to set the regional format in
  Korean because that goes with the system language. I currently set the
  regional format to that of Canada because I am not familiar with US
  system of yards, feet and pounds. As you can see in the attached
  screenshot, the date format shown on the middle of the task bar is a
  mixture of English and Korean (Frankenstein-ish).

  As I browsed through the bug report launchpad site, I found this bug
  has a long history which dates back to Ubuntu version 9.04. I have
  installed Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS on my other computer and it does not
  have the same bug. I guess it has something to do with the newly
  introduced "systemd"?

  I would very much like to see this bug is fixed ASAP (at least before
  the release of 15.04 proper version). I love GNOME interface, but this
  bug annoys me. Regards.

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