Re: What is en_US ?
- From: William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:35:42 -0400
Hi;
I know this thread is a bit of flame bait, or perhaps more correctly, a
bit of mild teasing, however on a practical note that could be mistaken
for a philosophical one ....
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 17:47 +0300, Markku Kolkka wrote:
Timothy Murphy kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko 13
kesäkuu 2007):
I'd like to enter a small caveat
about the use of the description "en_US"
when there is no other version of English on offer,
eg when installing Fedora.
Fedora actually supports en_AU, en_BW, en_CA, en_DK, en_GB,
en_HK, en_IE, en_IN, en_NZ, en_PH, en_SG, en_US, en_ZA and en_ZW
locales. If you need to pick one variant as a default, en_US is
reasonable because it has the largest number of users (AFAIK).
First of all, the difference between different variants of
English is negligible, in my opinion.
I never heard of anyone misunderstanding something
because it was in en_US rather than in en_GB.
The locales cover a lot more than just spelling, e.g. date/time
and numeric formatting. I guess that labeling money amounts
with "$" would irritate en_GB users more than spelling "humour"
as "humor".
--
Markku Kolkka
markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
computers offer an opportunity to support diversity in a progressively
more global and unified world. Recognizing differences between en_US,
en_Can, en_AU and en_UK is just one of these comforting manifestations.
I personally await the day when usable (not necessarily perfect)
computer translations from language to language is no more difficult
than an ordinary spellcheck.
--
Regards Bill
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