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(about American English in Mageia for British users)</H1> + <B>Marek Laane</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20What%20is%20your%20motivation%3F%20%28about%20American%0A%20English%20in%20Mageia%20for%20British%20users%29&In-Reply-To=%3CCAC0LJT86VtmJjQKtjwSLEqPi4-agWej%3DWT_EcvVsRXz96icbCQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)">bald at smail.ee + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Jul 25 01:05:29 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008319.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008321.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8320">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8320">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8320">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8320">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>2012/7/25 RICHARD WALKER <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">richard.j.walker at ntlworld.com</A>> + +><i> I feel I must register my support for Graham's position (insofar as I +</I>><i> understand it from the précis in this thread) as I have suffered +</I>><i> almost in silence for years from the jarring effect of finding +</I>><i> mis-spellings of common words scattered willy-nilly in Mageia and +</I>><i> previously Mandriva installations. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Whilst I have come to recognise that many of these instances are in +</I>><i> fact regarded as standard usage in the written form of another +</I>><i> language (a closely related fork of my native language), I do not +</I>><i> regard that as any sort of excuse for their persistence in an +</I>><i> environment I have configured to be en_GB. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If any Mageia "translators" are changing colour to color or centre to +</I>><i> center then unless they are doing it for en_US then they are quite +</I>><i> simply mistaken. If they do not understand the mistake then they would +</I>><i> probably be better employed in some other work, not translation. If +</I>><i> they are not native English speakers then the mistake is +</I>><i> understandable (not acceptable, just understandable) but I do not +</I>><i> think that there can be any justification for a policy that says en_US +</I>><i> translations should be forced on en_GB users. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Richard +</I>><i> +</I> +Well, I'm not sure I do understand at all what this discussion is about but +still do have some thoughts to share. It's nowhere established, of course, +but still almost the rule software is "written" in American English. +Therefore most projects have a dedicated translation team which +"translates" software in British English. AFAIK (and I'd be pleased to know +I'm not right) Mageia (and before Mandriva/Mandrake) sadly didn't and don't +have such team though sporadically there have been some efforts or at least +proposals ... Until there won't be en_GB translators for Mageia, all you +get if you choose en_GB are translations in en_GB for the software which +has been translated in British English (e.g. KDE or Firefox etc.) + +Marek Laane +-------------- next part -------------- +An HTML attachment was scrubbed... +URL: </pipermail/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120725/93321f4b/attachment.html> +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008319.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008321.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? 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