Alexander Winston wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:26 +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > >> Hi: >> >> I still have no clue on why "country/province" information is >> technically needed. Sure, "language" is needed, and so does "time zone", >> "keyboard", etc. But for what is "country"? > > It is probably for distinguishing the different dialects of languages. > For example, there is American English, Australian English, British > English, Canadian English, Chinese English, Danish English, Indian > English, Irish English, Motswana English, New Zealand English, > Philippine English, Singapore English, South African English, and > Zimbabwean English. That, at least, is according to GNU libc. :)
Yeah, and as I said elsewhere, "Country" is a stupid way to distinguish. If we're really getting into dialects, there's *way* more than that, and they *don't* follow country borders. Unfortunately, we're kind of stuck with it at the moment, because we'd have to change a *lot* of programs. We can't just rename it "Dialect", because "Country" is also used for the choice of currency symbol, separators in numbers, etc. Bleh. :-) -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
