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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1440275@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-05-08 09:31, Saurav Sengupta wrote:
> 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.

Right. And I think you were close to the truth when you said in a
comment on the Ask Ubuntu page that gnome-control-center seems to get
its list from /usr/share/locale-langpack. That's approximately what
happens, and it's fine when it comes to selecting display languages, but
it's not correct for selecting regional formats. In other words there
should be two separate lists, but currently gnome-control-center uses
the list intended for display languages for both purposes.

My somewhat technical comment was intended for Tim who is an Ubuntu
GNOME developer. I might propose a fix later on, but I'd like Tim's view
on which route to take first.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1440275

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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