On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:00, John Summerfield wrote: > Standard English is indistinguishable from what you might term Standard > Australian. Even my spoken English is often taken (by the English) as English > with an English accent, and I've never been outside Australia. > Impressive :) Not being a native English speaker, I do sometimes struggle to comprehend what some Australian characters in movies are saying. Then again, they tend to portray stereotypes, and some regional English accents are almost unmanagable too... (hi all Mancunians out there :p)
> The Language isn't so much a problem, but I do get fed up telling my computer we > use A4 paper. Once I tell it I live in Perth, WA then it should KNOW I use A4 > paper, measure lengths in metres, write dates dd/mm/yy and so on. > > And that my first choice of dictionary is Australian English and if that's not > available then UK English is fine. Hmm yes, that should not be too hard, at least on 'standardised' desktops like KDE and GNOME. Perhaps we should nag both development teams as well as freedesktop.org and linuxbase.org :) Dammit, even set to UK English Evolution still highlights standardised as an error. Here's hoping for GNOME2/GConf2 and instantly applied setting changes :) Oh, and don't most Australians live on the East Coast? Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim GPG public key at http://salimma.freeshell.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
