I live in Germany now, so I generally set it to Irish nowadays. Since I like ISO-style enter key, I use UK keyboard layout (also easier to switch to Turkish than ANSI-layout). However many OSes now have a English (Europe) locale too
Tying currency to locale seems insane. I have bank accounts in multiple currencies and use both several times per week. Why does all software on my system need to have a default currency? Most software does not care about money, those that do usually give you a quote in a currency fixed by someone else.
I live in Germany now, so I generally set it to Irish nowadays. Since I like ISO-style enter key, I use UK keyboard layout (also easier to switch to Turkish than ANSI-layout). However many OSes now have a English (Europe) locale too
Many Linux distributions provide en_DK specifically for this purpose. English as it is used in Denmark. :-)
This uses a comma decimal separator, which might or might not be desired.
Irish English locale uses a dot.
Denmark doesn't have Euros as currency, unfortunately.
Tying currency to locale seems insane. I have bank accounts in multiple currencies and use both several times per week. Why does all software on my system need to have a default currency? Most software does not care about money, those that do usually give you a quote in a currency fixed by someone else.
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en_IE does.