On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:18:12AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Dearie > > > Most of it just slips in as the default language > > of Debian. > > Does Debian have a default language? What is it? Latin? Esperanto? American > English? >
Probably N. European English as learned in school - which covers most denizens of the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland - and also Australia and NZ (and Commonwealth English - which is largely influenced by British spelling - Canadian is a hybrid spelling.) If English is not your first language, then your English will normally be determined by where your English teacher studied. This question came up - I think on debian-devel many years ago - and somebody said, as I remember it: - "British/American English - it really doesn't matter if you'll accept bad English" - and I think that's the right attitude. Debian does support many languages - but the level of translation and percentage of wiki/www.debian.org is significantly higher for some than for others. With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater > Best regards. > > Stella >