Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 15:56:41
Message-Id: 2299934.dzsnH5XQgv@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored? by Grant Edwards
1 On Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:39:45 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2018-01-06, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 > > On Friday, 5 January 2018 20:19:19 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
4 > >> It looks like most of the other broken packages just get rebuilt with
5 > >> no languages supported (which means they probably still work for an
6 > >> english speaker).
7 > >
8 > > Ahem! American "English", I think you mean.
9 >
10 > Yes, though for most programs [spell-checkers being the obvious
11 > exception] and most non-US English speakers who expected en_GB, I
12 > doubt they'd have any problems using programs that were speaking US
13 > English instead of British English (are there others in use besides
14 > en_GB?).
15 >
16 > --
17 > Grant
18
19 Well, KMail knows about Australian, Canadian and South African. It may
20 inherit those from Plasma, or it may know about them itself. That's still
21 just about spell-checking, though.
22
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Peter.