I don't think we should add en_GB and en_US to the list of supported
languages or split the translations. We should use the convention just when
making decisions on the correctness of words. Also I don't think there are
so many differences that it would justify the split.

Thanks,
Caty

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks to all who answered.
>
> I’ve now documented it at:
> * http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/
> DevelopmentPractices#HGeneral
> * http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/
> UserGuide/Features/I18N
>
> @Thomas: I’ve tried to add a new language by following
> http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/L10N/AddALanguage but I couldn’t
> find the page referenced by "Edit the main page of the application.”. Do
> you think you could add en_GB to the list? Also, I think we should mention
> somewhere that the en_US version is maintained in Git by the XWiki Core dev
> team and explain how people could contribute to the en_US version. WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> > On 4 Dec 2017, at 13:35, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > By default the xwiki core committers maintain an “en” version of all
> translations and the other languages are left to the community to maintain
> on l10n.xwiki.org
> >
> > This mail is about deciding if our “en” version is “en_US” or “en_GB”.
> >
> > I propose that we standardize on “en_US”. for example
> ApplicationResources.properties would correspond to en_US.
> >
> > I also propose that we add en_GB on l10n so that the community could
> maintain a UK version if they want (it would fall back to en_US when there
> are no translations, which is a good thing).
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
>
>

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