On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > 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
I updated the description for en_US. 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 for America
