Hi Tom, 2009/6/16 Tom Davies <[email protected]>
> Hi all > > I still find it odd that Ubuntu ships with a variety of different english; > us, gb, aus etc which ensures that almost everyone has to install the > additional language pack and then pick their own language. For me it's > great because i can cut some of the bloat out by simply removing the extra > languages ability although i would then have to suffer with american. > If I'm not mistaken, we ship a single language pack set for English (language-pack-en, language-pack-gnome-en, language-pack-kde-en and their -base counterparts), which contains en_GB, en_AU, en_CA, en_NZ and en_US translations. I understand that there are some English-speaking communities which want to have different translations to reflect the way they speak, so I cannot see a real issue here. Can you explain your problem in a bit more detail? Is your issue with the space the extra translations in the language pack take? > > If it was technically feasible to have just en_us, fr, perhaps spanish and > maybe one or two others rather than all the different english versions we > currently have then more people would have the sweet advantage that i > currently enjoy. > To what advantage are you referring to? What do French and Spanish have to do with the English language packs? > > There are technical reasons that would make this more complicated than is > immediately obvious. A huge change requiring a lot of work for a low > priority minor issue that most people probably don't notice anyway is hardly > something i can imagine people jumping on, it's just a thought about where > we might want to head in a few years. > We are always interested in feedback, so I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Maybe if you could specify a bit more what the problem you are experiencing is and what you are suggesting as a solution, we could start from there. > > Btw, congratulations on all the hardwork people :) Jaunty 9.04 is looking > great. Also great to see a high level of commitment from an official > source. It's great to see governments actively supporting gnu/linux's but > even better to see one giving support to specifically Ubuntu. I think the > whole world of computer users benefits from this as well as being a good way > for government departs and the rest of the people of the country. Perhaps > i'm being far too idealistic but developing ways out of paying licencing > fees to a foreign company's profit margin has got to be a good way to help > the local economy and to help resist the americanisation of the world. > Diversity breeds innovation and success. > > Thanks and regards all > Good luck from > Tom :) > > > > -- > ubuntu-translators mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators > Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu Translations! Regards, David.
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