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On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:50:56 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:39:45 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> > > Ahem! American "English", I think you mean. |
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>> > |
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>> > Yes, though for most programs [spell-checkers being the obvious |
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>> > exception] and most non-US English speakers who expected en_GB, I |
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>> > doubt they'd have any problems using programs that were speaking US |
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>> > English instead of British English (are there others in use besides |
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>> > en_GB?). |
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>> |
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>> Indeed there are, there's a whole world out there beyond the borders of |
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>> the USA ;-) |
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>> |
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>> grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc |
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>> linguas_en - English locale |
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>> linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia |
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>> linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada |
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>> linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain |
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>> linguas_en_US - English locale |
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> |
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> I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England; I |
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> speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of it, |
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> adapted from the original. The list should be: |
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> |
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> linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia |
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> linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada |
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> linguas_en_GB - English locale |
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> linguas_en_US - English locale for USA |
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I updated the description for en_US. |
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linguas_en - English locale |
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linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia |
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linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada |
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linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain |
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linguas_en_US - English locale for America |
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