On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:53:42PM -0000, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > Why should English be treated differently than any other language? > Let's just add an English catalog to the default installation and > the user will not see any difference. There is already a catalog (en_GB) for British users of English who prefer to keep the OED spellings, rather than surrender to the alternate (but more common) American US spellings. I don't think any of us take it seriously (I often don't remember to set up i18n for ages after building a new system) because we've come to accept that something very *like* English will eventually be written by everyone, no matter how they spell colour, or what they call petrol and nappies. (*) Anyway, expecting everyone to support translation catalogs just so that you can hack around bizarre grammatical features in some languages is a bit much. Instead try re-writing the code if you can, so that it uses separate phrases in each case. (*) Even in Japan, convergence is happening, although since it's in a foreign alphabet that's not as helpful as it might be. Nick.
