Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users writes: > I just keep getting reminded
By your users? By Tommy Robinson fans, Boris Johnson, and football hooligans? Or just when you see it in the list of supported languages? > that we specifically support USA English and we offer no other > English language support. Patches welcome. If somebody wants to provide idiomatic translations to other English dialects, they're welcome to do so. I'm waaaay too lazy to do it. ;-) I imagine that basically what happened is that ISO 639 provides a baroque format for describing languages, which includes identifying regional variation and other possible variations, as well as the language. The Mailman developers being mostly Americans, and wishing for the .po files to be consistent in spelling and idiom, we specified en_US as the language of the .po files. (Note that gettext doesn't know what's in the .po files; it could be a mixture of Portuguese, Russian, and Korean for all gettext cares.) Personally, I'd be against changing this. I'm not worried that anybody is going to think that other en dialects are completely unsupported, and I think it's important for us to show that as far as we are concerned en_US *is* a *dialect* that's convenient for us to use in developing programmatic messages, and not "canonical" English. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org