On Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:50:56 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:39:45 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > Ahem! American "English", I think you mean. > > > > Yes, though for most programs [spell-checkers being the obvious > > exception] and most non-US English speakers who expected en_GB, I > > doubt they'd have any problems using programs that were speaking US > > English instead of British English (are there others in use besides > > en_GB?). > > Indeed there are, there's a whole world out there beyond the borders of > the USA ;-) > > grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc > linguas_en - English locale > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada > linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain > linguas_en_US - English locale
I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England; I speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of it, adapted from the original. The list should be: linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada linguas_en_GB - English locale linguas_en_US - English locale for USA -- Regards, Peter.
