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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
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<!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE">
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<!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here -->
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<article lang="&language;">
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<sect1 id="locale">
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<sect1info>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author>
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<author>&Krishna.Tateneni; &Krishna.Tateneni.mail;</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2003-10-14</date>
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<releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo>
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<keywordset>
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<keyword>KDE</keyword>
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<keyword>KControl</keyword>
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<keyword>locale</keyword>
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<keyword>country</keyword>
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<keyword>language</keyword>
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</keywordset>
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</sect1info>
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<title>Country and Language</title>
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<para>This module of the &tde; control center allows you select
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customization options that depend on the region of the world that you
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happen to live in. There are five different pages in this module, each
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of which is described in detail in the following sections.</para>
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<para>In most cases, you can simply select the country you live in, and
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the other options will be set in an appropriate manner.</para>
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<para>Below the pages of this module, you can see a preview of what the
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settings look like. In addition to positive and negative numbers, you
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can see how positive and negative currency values, long and short dates,
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and times are displayed. When you change any of the settings, the
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preview shows the effects of the changes before you apply them.</para>
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<sect2 id="locale-locale">
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<title>Locale</title>
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<para>On this page, there are two lists, from which you can
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select the country and languages that you want
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to use.</para>
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<para>When you click on the <guilabel>Country</guilabel> list,
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a menu pops up showing major groups of countries. You can select
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one of these regions and see a list of the countries that are
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available for that region.</para>
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<para>If the language for the country you have selected is available on your
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system, it will be selected automatically. For instance, choosing
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<guilabel>Germany</guilabel> as the country will select
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<guilabel>German</guilabel> as the language, if it is available.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="locale-numbers">
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<title>Numbers</title>
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<para>On this page, you can select options for how numbers are
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displayed. The defaults are selected automatically based on the country
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which is currently selected.</para>
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<para>In the text box labeled <guilabel>Decimal symbol</guilabel>, you
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can type the character that you want to use to separate the decimal
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portion of numbers. You could put anything here you wanted to, but
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really, <userinput>.</userinput> and <userinput>,</userinput> are the
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two characters that make the most sense.</para>
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<para>Similarly, you can choose the character which is used to group
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units of thousands in numbers. If no character, not even a space, is
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present, then there will be no separator for thousands.</para>
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<para>Finally, you can choose what character should be prefixed to
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positive and negative numbers respectively. For example, the default
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for English is not to have any prefix for positive numbers, and a
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<userinput>-</userinput> for negative numbers.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="locale-money">
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<title>Money</title>
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<para>Unlike the display of ordinary numbers, conventions for
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currency values do vary from region to region. However, you will
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find that the defaults are probably fine.</para>
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<para>The character or characters representing the currency symbol
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are based on the country that is currently selected. The decimal
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symbol and thousands separator work as they do for numbers. The
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text box labeled <guilabel>Fract digits</guilabel> allows you
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to specify the number of fractional digits used in displaying
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currency values.</para>
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<para>For both positive and negative currency values, you can
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control whether the currency symbol appears before or after the
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numeric value, and how the sign of the value is distinguished
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in the display. Note that the symbols used for the sign of
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currency values are the same as those used for other numeric
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values.</para>
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<para>If the checkbox labeled <guilabel>Prefix currency
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symbol</guilabel> is selected, the currency symbol appears
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before the numeric value. If this checkbox is cleared, then the
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currency symbol appears after the numeric value.</para>
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<para>There are five choices for the way in which the sign of the
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currency value is handled:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>The <guilabel>Parens around</guilabel>
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option displays the numeric value within a pair of
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parentheses.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <guilabel>Before quantity money</guilabel>
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option displays the sign before the numeric value, but after any
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currency symbol that may be present.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <guilabel>After quantity money</guilabel>
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option displays the sign after the numeric value, but before any
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currency symbol that may be present.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <guilabel>Before money</guilabel> option
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displays the sign before the numeric value as well as any
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currency symbol that may be present.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>The <guilabel>After money</guilabel> option
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displays the sign after the numeric value as well as any
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currency symbol that may be present.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="locale-datetime">
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<title>Time and Dates</title>
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<para>If you use a different calendar system than Gregorian, you can
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choose this from the first dropdown box.</para>
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<para>On the rest of this page, there are text boxes for the time, long
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date, and short date, in which you can type format strings to control
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the way in which times and dates are displayed.</para>
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<para>Except for the special codes described below, any other characters in the
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format strings are displayed literally. The special codes consist of a
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<parameter>%</parameter> sign followed by a character, as shown in the list of
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codes below:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>Time format codes:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><parameter>HH</parameter> - The hour according to a 24-hour
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clock, using two digits (00 to 23).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>hH</parameter> - The hour according to a 24-hour
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clock, using one or two digits (0 to 23).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>PH</parameter> (uppercase <quote>p</quote>) - The hour according
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to a 12-hour clock, using two digits (01 to 12).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>pH</parameter> (lowercase <quote>p</quote>) - The hour according
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to a 12-hour clock, using one or two digits (1 to 12).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>MM</parameter> - The current minute using two digits
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(00 to 59).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>SS</parameter> - The current second using two digits
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(00 to 59).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>AMPM</parameter> - Either <quote>am</quote> or <quote>pm</quote> depending on the hour.
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Useful with <parameter>PH</parameter> or
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<parameter>pH</parameter>.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>Date format codes:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para><parameter>YYYY</parameter> - The year, using 4
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digits.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>YY</parameter> - The year, using 2
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digits.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>MM</parameter> - The month, using 2 digits (01 to
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12).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>mM</parameter> - The month, using 1 or 2 digits (1
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to 12).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>MONTH</parameter> - The name of the
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month.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>SHORTMONTH</parameter> - The abbreviated name of the
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month.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>DD</parameter> - The day, using 2 digits (01 to
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31).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>dD</parameter> - The day, using 1 or 2 digits (1 to
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31).</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>WEEKDAY</parameter> - The name of the
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weekday.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><parameter>SHORTWEEKDAY</parameter> - The abbreviated name of the
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weekday.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Finally, there's a combobox labeled <guilabel>First day
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of the week</guilabel> which lets you select which day is the first
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one of the week in your country.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="locale-other">
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<title>Other</title>
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<para>You can select the default paper format with the combo box labeled <guilabel>Paper Format</guilabel>.</para>
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<para>Use the drop down box labeled <guilabel>Measure system</guilabel> to select Imperial or
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Metric systems of measurement.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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