Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-08 Thread James A. Treacy
Just returning from vacation, so a late addition to this thread. On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:08:10PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin uttered: > > > If you used "en", it would have worked fine. > > But of course I would prefer en-au or en-gb

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > The UK mirror of the Debian site, www.uk.debian.org, has started > defaulting to Chinese as its language. Weird! Hope I'm reporting > this to the right place. You are, however, please check out http://www.debian.org/intro/cn Regards, Joey -- Computers are no

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:34:28PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs uttered: > I'd rather like to see that MS doesn't try to enforce new (read, their) > so-called standards by using non-standard defaults for their apps *sigh* en-gb is a perfectly valid and standard language default. Of course not having e

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Fri, May 04, 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > But of course I would prefer en-au or en-gb to en-us, you see :) > Works fine now but would be helpful to fix for others in my situation. I'd rather like to see that MS doesn't try to enforce new (read, their) so-called standards by using non-standa

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin uttered: > If you used "en", it would have worked fine. But of course I would prefer en-au or en-gb to en-us, you see :) Works fine now but would be helpful to fix for others in my situation. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical loca

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:39:01PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > > No, it hasn't (just checked). If you don't tell it anything, it gives > > English. Please check for any misconfigured proxies, read more at > > http://www.debian.org/intro/cn > > H... I'm using IE 5.5 (long story involving

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Mo McKinlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, Rev Simon Rumble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Upon changing that to now be (my preference): en-au, en-gb, en, fr > it works fine. It seems the language matching doesn't recognise, or > gets confused by, just en-gb. I did verify this on

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:29:50PM +0200, peter karlsson uttered: > No, it hasn't (just checked). If you don't tell it anything, it gives > English. Please check for any misconfigured proxies, read more at > http://www.debian.org/intro/cn H... I'm using IE 5.5 (long story involving getting p

Re: Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread peter karlsson
Rev Simon Rumble: > The UK mirror of the Debian site, www.uk.debian.org, has started > defaulting to Chinese as its language. No, it hasn't (just checked). If you don't tell it anything, it gives English. Please check for any misconfigured proxies, read more at http://www.debian.org/intro/cn --

Chinese new official language in UK?

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
The UK mirror of the Debian site, www.uk.debian.org, has started defaulting to Chinese as its language. Weird! Hope I'm reporting this to the right place. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net It is illegal to say "Oh,