On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 02:49 +0000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 06:00, "David Lodge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:12:55 +0100, Rodrigo Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > In the Address section of the About Me dialog, the Home address has the > > > field State/Province, while the Work address has the field County. Both > > > should be State/Province in my opinion. > > > > I'll be honest - that was probably me in the upstream (i.e. Gnome) > > translation. I stand by this change, for en_GB, as it better reflects the > > GB perspective (we don't have states and provinces aren't normally > > applicable). > > Both fields should be consistent, since they mean the same thing. > > > Ubuntu may want to change this downstream as their en_GB translation > > covers more than just the UK. > > This is a difficult one to decide upon. To pick only three Commonwealth > countries as an example: > > * the UK uses 'county' > * Australia uses 'state' > * Canada uses 'province' > > While we could have 'County/State/Province', that could be considered to be > unwieldy. > > Another point of contention is the 'City' field. For most Australians at > least, this is where they would enter their suburb name (e.g. 'Burwood', > not 'Sydney'). > > I have taken a page out of KDE's book and changed 'State/Province' to > 'Region' > and 'City' to 'Locality'. These terms are more generic and should be > applicable just about anywhere. I ticked the 'Someone should review this > translation' box, so that we can discuss this change further if necessary. If > there are no objections, I'll remove those ticks to have the change made > official. > Sounds like a good idea to me. BTW, is anyone else getting two copies of every mail sent to this list?
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