Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Possible solution for altering date formats (Debian)?

[Jim Busser]

On 1-Jul-09, at 11:45 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > Maybe if postgres is installed as part of the debian installation,
> > something about the original locale becomes a postgres default that
> > requires that locale to remain available even after the system would
> > have its default altered.
>
> PG needs it to know how to sort data, among other things. It
> cannot change it either, even accepting changes in sorting,
> because that would invalidate indexes.

Don't  the indexes influence sorting?

Is it just the character set that is important to the consideration?


> > Alternatively in the GNUmed client menu
> >
> >         GNUmed > Options > Database > Language
> >
> > there exist about five options none of which are en_DK
>
> That is only about the language used to translate strings
> inside the database - nothing to do with the client user
> interface as such.

Is the above selection only relevant to  i18n .po files (if they  
would have been supplied)?



> > and the widget seems not fully enough yet developed
> > to permit to create New or Edit or Delete.
>
> There isn't any new/edit/delete with that - managing locales
> is an admin affair. Only choosing among the available ones is
> of the user's duties.

Then shall these button be removed (perhaps a leftover from cloning  
the Workplace window?)