On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > > > Maybe it should ask if you want british or american english. > > > 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... :( >
I agree. This argument sounds reasonable. If spanish maps to Spain, then english should map to England. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A