Soh Kam Yung wrote:
See
[http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/01/android-netbooks-on-their-way-likely-by-2010/]
Interesting: among the hidden things found is a translation in
progress for "English (Singapore)".
A Singlish version of Android?
Ha, Ha. Yes, but having a Locale doesn't imply a translation. en_SG is
what is referred to as a 'sub-locale'.
Sub-locales of a common language are generally used as a means to have
local date, time, number and currency conventions. This probably just
means android will show the correct date, time and currency formats
(e.g. S$) for Singapore.
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Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010
Matthäus Krzykowski & Daniel Hartmann | January 1st, 2009
[Update: Since posting this story, we've had a lot of inquiries from
readers, with questions ranging from whether Android is ready for
laptops and full-scale PCs, why Android can't rely fully on Linux, and
so on. See our follow-up Android FAQ post.]
The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google's
mobile operating system Android. Huh? You thought Android was for
mobile phones, right? Well, as we've written before, Google is
planning to use Android for any device — not just the mobile phones.
[...]
In "Settings," we stumbled upon the feature "Select locale." In it, we
noticed that the following translations of Android are under way:
Czech, German, English (Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, United
States), Spanish, Japanese, German and Dutch. Expect speculation on
devices launching in these markets soon.
[...]
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