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

Wed Jul 25 00:38:26 CEST 2012

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
+