[Mailman-Developers] English (USA)

[CARTER Anthony]

The changing of the label is only in this particular instance, not in the 
source...I never intended to step on any toes about this. We don't really 
care if the are americanisms in the app, just not a blatant (USA) in there. 
It is the European ******* (hashed but consider it a big and important part 
of europe) afterall ;) ;)

Anyway, I removed the label from the Defaults.py file, and things seem to be 
fine...

Thanks,
Anthony Carter
Cordis Operations



On Sunday 20 April 2003 02:19, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Since John, Ken, and I are all American, I think it's only mildly
> surprising <wink> that all the source code human readable text, and the
> en templates are written in American English.
>
> As for supporting alternative dialects, there is a fairly concrete
> standard in the i18n world, however Mailman doesn't support it very
> well.  A language specification, e.g. in HTTP's HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGES
> header, can have a language, a country, and a variant.  An example might
> be en_US or de_DE_PREEURO.  In Mailman we have pt and pt_BR for
> Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
>
> However, what you'd want is for pt_BR for example to simply contain the
> overrides to pt, or en_UK to contain just the overrides for en.  That
> way a British translation of Mailman would only need those few entries
> that are different than American English (glossing over en_US for now).
> I definitely want to add this in a future release.
>
> For now, a non-American English translation would have to do all the
> work that any other translation would have to do (see README-I18N.en)
> except that you have an advantage.  If you leave a message or template
> untranslated, it uses the default source string, which in this case is
> American English. :)
>
> I'm not in favor of changing the label from "English (USA)".
>
> -Barry
>
>
>
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