[Mailman-Users] English (USA)

[Jim Popovitch]

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On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 12:46 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 7/8/19 12:15 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Now I'm confused. :-)  I know about the differences in UK and US English
> > are in general (color vs colour, etc), but I don't know about the
> > differences within Mailman.  Adding to my confusion is that my Mailman
> > installs only have "English (USA)" and no "English (UK)", let alone any
> > of the other English speaking countries.
> 
> 
> Actually, there is no English (en, en-US, en-UK or other) message
> catalog distributed with Mailman. There are templates, but no message
> catalog. All of the translatable strings in the Mailman code are written
> in English, and since there is no English message catalog, they are
> untranslated when the target language is English.
> 
> As far as whether or not any of the strings are specifically US rather
> than generic English is concerned, I don't know. One would have to audit
> the messages/mailman.pot file to determine that.
> 
> However, I think a requirement that Mailman use only "generic" English
> and avoid any en-US that differs from other dialects would be unduly
> restrictive.

Just to be clear, I'm not proposing changes to any po strings, rather
just the labels.  The end result would be just "English" in the list of
available languages for a list instead of "English (USA)".

- -Jim P.
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