Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 11:35, David N. Welton wrote: > > "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > My bug was triggered by the fact that gdm offers a long selection > > > of languages, among them English (without bells and whistles, just > > > plain old "English") and in case you select that, it sets the > > > environment variable LANG to that, "english". > > > > Maybe it should ask if you want british or american english. > > > > Trying to decide which one is 'the' English is probably a good recipe > > for a flame war with no result. > > why? we know what is *the* english, the one that originated in england. > (note how the two words have the same root, eng-?) as a pratical rule, i > suggest to assign the language 'name' to the locale of the coutry that > originated it. spain for spanish, italy for italian, france for french, > etc. everybody is accepting that on other languages, don't see why the > americans should do different... :( > Closest parallel would be pt/pt_BR, since Brazil/Portugal is another example of where the daughter country has a greater population and rivals the mother country as cultural center. Actually, probably more so. So that precedent would argue for english -> en_UK.
As a southerner, I would object to yank -> en_US. :-) Considering our troubles, maybe it should be anguished -> en_US. :-(