As a Hongkonger, native in Cantonese (zh-hk/yue) and fluent in English (en) and work in Singapore (en-sg & zh-sg), I have a even more mundane use case that Siri is not clever enough to support.

I want my location to be in Singapore (Singapore SIM/Card etc) I want my UI to be in English. I want my Siri speaks Cantonese to me.

For reason on Apple knows why, I have to use English (Singapore) as my UI and Siri language or Apple Intelligence will not turn on. As if the engineer who develop Siri/Apple Intelligence have never think about the needs of those who speaks more than one language.

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Pay08 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Honestly, this is a complaint of mine with a lot of software. I'm Hungarian and live in Hungary. The amount I have to struggle to have British English language, American keyboard layout, and Hungarian time in Windows is insane.

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abustamam 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean there are languages that are not English and countries that are not US?? News to big tech!

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	▲	bombcar 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's not even really US-centric - it's that too many settings are controlled by one option "locale" and if you want a mixture that isn't represented, you're stuck, even in the USA. Example: ISO standard date 2026-05-14 with 24 hour clock, US digits 1,000,341.24, dollar signs, and English. Most systems won't let you get this, because they have one setting that controls all of it.
	▲	ch4s3 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's pretty funny when you consider how many top people in SV are Chinese, Indian, or Russian and speak English as a second or third language.