[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)

[Morgan Leijström]

I too prefer en_GB as that is what i have learned in school (like most of us 
non en_* native speakers)  I realise today i am already inconsistent in my own 
english use due to most english programs i use are en_US.

But we must realise we may be a minority (?) Despite en_BG being preferred by 
most non native en speakers


The system source and interface must be written in *one* consistent language.

And the fact is that the most common used language in the system is en_US

Therefor it should be purified to *en_US*

And all other en_* should be translations.



Also read the bug linked in Marjas post


Or why not write all in lojban ;)

/Morgan


onsdagen den 25 juli 2012 00.38.26 skrev  RICHARD WALKER:
> I feel I must register my support for Graham's position (insofar as I
> understand it from the précis in this thread) as I have suffered
> almost in silence for years from the jarring effect of finding
> mis-spellings of common words scattered willy-nilly in Mageia and
> previously Mandriva installations.
> 
> Whilst I have come to recognise that many of these instances are in
> fact regarded as standard usage in the written form of another
> language (a closely related fork of my native language), I do not
> regard that as any sort of excuse for their persistence in an
> environment I have configured to be en_GB.
> 
> If any Mageia "translators" are changing colour to color or centre to
> center then unless they are doing it for en_US then they are quite
> simply mistaken. If they do not understand the mistake then they would
> probably be better employed in some other work, not translation. If
> they are not native English speakers then the mistake is
> understandable (not acceptable, just understandable) but I do not
> think that there can be any justification for a policy that says en_US
> translations should be forced on en_GB users.
> 
> Richard