blob: 8956153cf64d53d3f82476752a88bacc109a6629 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)
</TITLE>
<LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
<LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20What%20is%20your%20motivation%3F%20%28about%20American%0A%09English%20in%20Mageia%20for%20British%20users%29&In-Reply-To=%3C201207250107.31141.fri%40tribun.eu%3E">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008320.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="008323.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<H1>[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)</H1>
<B>Morgan Leijström</B>
<A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20What%20is%20your%20motivation%3F%20%28about%20American%0A%09English%20in%20Mageia%20for%20British%20users%29&In-Reply-To=%3C201207250107.31141.fri%40tribun.eu%3E"
TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)">fri at tribun.eu
</A><BR>
<I>Wed Jul 25 01:07:31 CEST 2012</I>
<P><UL>
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008320.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="008323.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#8321">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#8321">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#8321">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#8321">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR>
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>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> 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></PRE>
<!--endarticle-->
<HR>
<P><UL>
<!--threads-->
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008320.html">[Mageia-discuss] What is your motivation? (about American English in Mageia for British users)
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="008323.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#8321">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#8321">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#8321">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#8321">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>
|
