From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2377D138330 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9887E096C; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97D5AE08A4 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wr0-f169.google.com (mail-wr0-f169.google.com [209.85.128.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8962C335C07 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 17:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wr0-f169.google.com with SMTP id f8so6961054wre.4 for ; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:33:45 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mKN/yDg4NA0jCHFumwhnEAtqRtdbbyE26hR47K80mYXet9kgFha Y5aUrgPYCfZJ5+j7A+qSlNkDJT5DdemSGU8eHUM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBossaQDKupfe7iPKVeHSBR0CGI4+i9M5c4pjw1Z5KA4AcD/1qgv/4CoTrR5LSce3XNk+/ORoHdcpVBreUI88G5s= X-Received: by 10.223.139.75 with SMTP id v11mr5651219wra.244.1515260022818; Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:33:42 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.154.86 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:33:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2181534.oqK8XbxIbo@peak> References: <20180106155056.02bf8697@digimed.co.uk> <2181534.oqK8XbxIbo@peak> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:33:22 -0500 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 4a48c8f5-56de-47ac-a6b0-42121afdd4b2 X-Archives-Hash: d8279a6262c8a4193adedf5ed800f100 On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:00 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 6 January 2018 15:50:56 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:39:45 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> > > Ahem! American "English", I think you mean. >> > >> > Yes, though for most programs [spell-checkers being the obvious >> > exception] and most non-US English speakers who expected en_GB, I >> > doubt they'd have any problems using programs that were speaking US >> > English instead of British English (are there others in use besides >> > en_GB?). >> >> Indeed there are, there's a whole world out there beyond the borders of >> the USA ;-) >> >> grep linguas_en /var/portage/profiles/use.desc >> linguas_en - English locale >> linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia >> linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada >> linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain >> linguas_en_US - English locale > > I object to that (not you, Neil, some dev or other). I live in England; I > speak English. People who live in America speak their own version of it, > adapted from the original. The list should be: > > linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia > linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada > linguas_en_GB - English locale > linguas_en_US - English locale for USA I updated the description for en_US. linguas_en - English locale linguas_en_AU - English locale for Australia linguas_en_CA - English locale for Canada linguas_en_GB - English locale for Britain linguas_en_US - English locale for America