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Originally Posted by latepaul
0x55 brings up an interesting point. On Linux and some unixes you can set the locale using values of this format - which suggests they're using standard libraries. However there are a family of locale settings and since there's only one in the .conf file it will probably be being used for all of them (in general you want to set you time and date, character set, collation, money format settings to related settings). Maybe they haven't exposed this setting because they want to split it up into individual settings.
It would be interesting to know if changing the locale changed the sort order.
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As I stated earlier, the only noticeable change the date display. In my case it is to en_AU, so the date format is DD/MM/YYYY. Everything else should be the same as for en_US.
But, your statement about not being changed by the device is wrong. If you choose a language from the menu, the conf file gets updated with the appropriate locale for the language. Selecting Dutch sets it to "nl_NL". I didn't check the other languages. The issue is that Kobo has decided that "English" is only locale "en_US". Apart from the testing I have done, seeing that the locale is changed for different languages makes me feel very safe doing manually changing the it.
I don't suppose that I blame Kobo for doing it this way. They are keeping the GUI to a minimum and that means keeping the total number of options down.
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Originally Posted by latepaul
Well they did put it on a hidden partition. You have no idea what constraints they're working to. In any case even if they have a choice it's not whether you choose to edit that file, it's whether you choose to do so and then complain that they are stupid if it doesn't work as you expect.
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Not they didn't. It is on the partition that is visible when connected to a PC. The base directory stars with a dot, so that is not as visible to a unix based machine. But it is a directory that Kobo people have told us to look in. And I have even been told by Kobo to make changes to the conf file in the past.