How to use other than selected language time, date, currency etc. settings?
asked 2019-01-13 14:02:28 +0200
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Hello!
A new sailor with new Xperia XA2 and Lemmenjoki 3.0.8 on it (works fine and happy to use it)-> Is there any way to use for example english GUI language but finnish time, date, currency and other measurent settings? It seems that within the GUI settings you cannot do this because all other settings follows actually the language settings.
And why I want this -> The tradional reason (like in every linux platforms) is that while the main OS is very nice with finnish :-) all apps are not... just want to see everything in english for that reason. Can this be accomplished by editing locale file, is there this file somewhere and if, how to edit it (as easy as possible)?
Thanks!
searching with metric as search term gave me some hite (most of them linked to maps), probably this question could bring you further...
rgrnetalk ( 2019-01-13 15:45:21 +0200 )editYes, thanks, I'll try that one!
2kanaa ( 2019-01-13 21:11:18 +0200 )editPerhaps I misunderstand the extent of your question, but from what I can see, you can set the keyboard to English UK, set time to Finland (disable automatic update). Finland uses the Euro, on the English UK keyboard, you will find the € key.........what else am I missing?, measurement?, not sure if Finland uses metric or imperial, best to let a Fin answer that one :)
Spam Hunter ( 2019-01-13 21:41:59 +0200 )edit@Edz - metric, SI units FTW! ;)
raketti ( 2019-01-13 22:08:31 +0200 )editYou seem to be happy to Finnish of the main OS so why not leave that as is and concentrate on poor apps. You can easily change the app language permanently to English (or poor English like in my apps:)) by renaming the translations file as follows:
/usr/share/harbour-yourapp/translations/harbour-yourapp-fi.qm
You may also replace a Finnish translation file with a possibly available English or other language file. To change the icon text in app launcher you have to comment a Finnish name in a file
/usr/share/applications/harbour-yourapp.desktop
Of course yo can make app translations better to report poor translations to the app developer
Rikujolla ( 2019-01-14 07:34:33 +0200 )edit