Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:57:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:45:24AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > But since we only have ibritish and iamerican packages, I do not think > > we can get icanadian package to check spelling for Canada. > > You could always go through a Canadian dictionary and make your own > icanadian package. ...interesting bootstrap problem trying to spellcheck the OCR output :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:45:24AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > But since we only have ibritish and iamerican packages, I do not think > we can get icanadian package to check spelling for Canada. You could always go through a Canadian dictionary and make your own icanadian package. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAOXZUzgNqloQMwcRAtwVAJ44Z2cbJgbdG7Lvqw04wNxG2liVUACePDzp mcCL/L9JmOVvuRMtOqAiStY= =jlmT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:33:47AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:40:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > > > affected by locale? Dunno. > > > > I think en_ca and en_uk have identical dictionaries. > > They might. But in general I think that in Canadian English there is > a mix of American and British spelling and often both are acceptable. > Of course you should be consistent, and not switch spellings in the > middle of a sentence. As I drove around Canadian town, I saw bill boad like: Joe's Tyre Centre But since we only have ibritish and iamerican packages, I do not think we can get icanadian package to check spelling for Canada. Besides, locale is for glibc. I think spell disctionary choice is not directly related to en_CA. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
Incoming from Paul Johnson: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California > > needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." > > That's rather insulting to Canadians to compare them to Californians. Come on, Paul. We expect that sort of thing from Yanquis, don't we? :-) The thing that really bothers me is if en_CA and en_GB both call up British spelling locale, spell checkers are going to b*tch at me for not including enough vowels in "al-yoo-min-ee-um" & etc. Good thing I can spell. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:25:27PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California > > needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." > > That's rather insulting to Canadians to compare them to Californians. Okay, Scott. (see the recent Canada / Wizard of Oz episode of South Park) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California > needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." That's rather insulting to Canadians to compare them to Californians. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//gMHUzgNqloQMwcRAnb6AKDmGXCYYIuu36k6iCZeSeoeCTKSRACfSkWa 2xOoJQz/YEAh7p7BLEjKR5I= =N/JM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 at 13:33 GMT, Bijan Soleymani penned: > > They might. But in general I think that in Canadian English there is a > mix of American and British spelling and often both are acceptable. > Of course you should be consistent, and not switch spellings in the > middle of a sentence. > Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do." -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:40:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > > affected by locale? Dunno. > > I think en_ca and en_uk have identical dictionaries. They might. But in general I think that in Canadian English there is a mix of American and British spelling and often both are acceptable. Of course you should be consistent, and not switch spellings in the middle of a sentence. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. I think en_ca and en_uk have identical dictionaries. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//MM6UzgNqloQMwcRAp3cAJ4xihXJXdjIbj6FSgmW0pRzY+IfJgCgr7qx vGQ1wYtBEVPDLZuqLD0NgPk= =EVRq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:08:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > > affected by locale? Dunno. > > Oi, the date format is endlessly confusing if you're American and you > happen to prefer the non-American way, *and* do computers enough to > think in the iso way. > > My most recent rent check, which I wrote last week on the 3rd of > January, I wrote "04 Jan 03", saw how messed up that was, and scribbled > a litle "20" in front of the "04". My landlady came by and thought I'd > written the year wrong :-) Can you guys take me off the Cc list? I haven't maintained glibc in over a year. Best bet is to carry this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr > (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. Oi, the date format is endlessly confusing if you're American and you happen to prefer the non-American way, *and* do computers enough to think in the iso way. My most recent rent check, which I wrote last week on the 3rd of January, I wrote "04 Jan 03", saw how messed up that was, and scribbled a litle "20" in front of the "04". My landlady came by and thought I'd written the year wrong :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
Em Qua, 2004-01-07 Ãs 19:24, s. keeling escreveu: > Incoming from Nano Nano: > > > > What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? > > Are spelling dictionaries > affected by locale? Dunno. Should be, as well as user interface text. Do you use more of British or US vocabulary and grammar? -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prefeitura do MunicÃpio de SÃo Paulo Governo EletrÃnico, Telecentros +55 (11) 5080 9647 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5080 9648 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
Incoming from Nano Nano: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:25:46AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but > > What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? > Is the currency symbol "$" ?? Sort order different? Date formats? I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr (when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries affected by locale? Dunno. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:25:46AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make > en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US? Is the currency symbol "$" ?? Sort order different? Date formats? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf doesn't list a special currency symbol for canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
