Thank you this is what was missing from my understanding, changing langcode 
to en-gb, caused en-us.py translation to be picked up and en-gb.py to not 
be.

On Friday, March 14, 2014 8:49:17 PM UTC-4, LightDot wrote:
>
> I'm less familiar with the translation parts of web2py that I'd like to 
> be, but is this connected with the definitions of:
>
> '!langcode!': 'en-us',
> '!langname!': 'English (US)',
>
> that can be found in languages/default.py?
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Friday, March 14, 2014 8:39:21 PM UTC+1, User wrote:
>>
>> I'd really like to understand this.  If I set the current language to 
>> 'en', why does en-gb get translated but en-us does not get translated?
>>
>> On Sunday, March 9, 2014 10:31:57 PM UTC-4, User wrote:
>>>
>>> So why do en-us and en-gb behave differently?  That is, why is en-gb 
>>> translated and en-us not translated?
>>>
>>> On Sunday, March 9, 2014 9:04:23 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Because if T.current_languages: ['en'] it means you say that 'en' does 
>>>> not need to be translated. This is the default behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 7 March 2014 17:49:23 UTC-6, User wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I made a bare bones app based on the welcome app:
>>>>>
>>>>> In db.py:
>>>>> T.current_languages = ['en']
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> in en-us.py:
>>>>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>>>> {
>>>>> '!langcode!': 'en-us',
>>>>> '!langname!': 'English (American)',
>>>>> 'xyztest': 'Pass! (US English)'
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> in en-gb.py:
>>>>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>>>> {
>>>>> '!langcode!': 'en-gb',
>>>>> '!langname!': 'English (British)',
>>>>>
>>>>> 'xyztest': 'Pass! (UK)'
>>>>>
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In a view:
>>>>> <h2>Language testing:</h2>
>>>>> string: <strong>{{=T('xyztest')}}</strong><br>
>>>>> current_languages: {{=T.current_languages}}<br>
>>>>> T.http_accept_language: {{=T.http_accept_language}}<br>
>>>>> T.accepted_language: {{=T.accepted_language}}<br>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The rendered output of this is:
>>>>>
>>>>> string: *xyztest*
>>>>> T.current_languages: ['en']
>>>>> T.http_accept_language: en-us,en;q=0.5
>>>>> T.accepted_language: en-us
>>>>>
>>>>> Why does this not get translated? By contrast, if I set my browser 
>>>>> accept language to include en-gb the rendered output is:
>>>>>
>>>>> string:* Pass! (UK)*
>>>>> T.current_languages: ['en']
>>>>> T.http_accept_language: en-gb,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
>>>>> T.accepted_language: en-gb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>

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