Comment 9 for bug 926207

On 2012-03-22 20:16, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> If the user says that they speak English and live in Switzerland, what
>> is the correct value for LC_NUMERIC?
>
> I'd say, whatever value the installer currently sets for
> LC_{MESSAGES,CTYPE,COLLATE}.

I think you typed too fast there, Martin. ;-)

>> Gunnar is proposing changing the semantics
>
> That's what I'd like to avoid for precise at least (i. e. the bit
> whether numeric should be tied to the language or the region; it is tied
> to the region right now, so let's not rip this apart at this point in
> the release cycle).
>
> The net effect should be the same, the change is just which half of the
> LC_* categories we define to differ from LANG in case the user-selected
> language doesn't match the language of the LANG locale. Right now we
> change the "language" part, and with the proposed change we'd change the
> "region" part.

Agreed 100%. That's precisely what this is about.