International English sounds great. Just did my research. Sent from my iPad
On Apr 9, 2013, at 18:28, Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le 09/04/13 01:24 PM, Dave Johnson a écrit : >> >>> In terms of spelling... North American English or British English, which >>> version are you preferring? If you don't like the reference to the US for >>> the sake of opinion... Lets stick with North American English then. >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >> >> We have no nl EN groups and use international-EN as our base by convention, > > I've never heard of "International-EN", but I'll go read up on it now :-) > >> It would be as if we had put FR-CA, and ES-CO as language designation which >> we do not do. > > Just as a point of clarification, I believe that en-US is a very > common default in many FOSS distros or software packages, so I think > that in this case there might be some justification based on > consistency. Personally, 'International-EN' sounds like a fine choice. > >> Therefore by simple logic EN should also follow the same >> format as the rest of the language choices. > > That seems reasonable to me. If we do have just one version of the > text for all English-speaking visitors, we should put an emphasis on > clarity and try to avoid idiomatic phrases or country-specific > vocabulary that could be confusing to a chunk of our native English > speakers. > > --R > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
