Hi Max,
Thanks for your help to make Ubuntu better by posting this observation.
Actually, the country _is_ specified for all the available English
translation variants. On my box I see these items:
English (Australia)
English (Canada)
English (New Zeeland)
English (United Kingdom)
English (United States)
In addition to those menu items Language Support lists also an English
only (i.e. without country) special item. The latter serves as a
separator between languages that are included in the LANGUAGE
environment variable and the other languages. Its purpose is not to mean
"English as spoken in the US".
OTOH, if somebody selects the non-country English item, Ubuntu still has
to pick a proper locale name to put into the LC_MESSAGES environment
variable, and it's configured to pick en_US.UTF-8 in that case. The
reason for not having it pick en_GB.UTF-8 is of a practical nature:
en_US is assumed to be available on more computers worldwide than en_GB.
A similar topic was previously discussed at bug #710148, btw.
You may want to click the "Help" button from the Language Support window
for a description of how Language Support is intended to work.
Considering the above explanation, I hope you agree that there is no
obvious bug to fix.
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
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