Launchpad itself

en_US support

Bug #4551 reported by Philipp Kern
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Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
Low
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Bug Description

Well, not all of us use American English in their applications. So it would be nice if you could support translations into this dialect. We currently write our strings in British English, and en_US is not even offered as a language.

Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)
Changed in rosetta:
assignee: nobody → carlos
status: New → Accepted
Carlos Perelló Marín (carlos)
Changed in rosetta:
assignee: carlos → nobody
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Rocrail (r.j.versluis) wrote :

I would rather see the template as a meta language and not the English used to display at run time.

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Данило Шеган (danilo) wrote :

We'd be happy to oblige when majority of free software stack switches to anything like that. Until that point, there's no reason to bother and lose advantages of the current system we have (i.e. if everything uses the *same* base language [doesn't matter which one it is], we can easily find matching translations and offer them as suggestions).

Unfortunately, a majority of free software stack (and especially, GNU gettext) is designed for English (and especially en_US). If we are to allow any other language as the base language (like en_GB), we'd have to allow others as well (eg. why not have Serbian or Chinese?), which is sometimes impossible without changing the core infrastructure.

Also, this is so low on our priority list that we won't have time to even consider this issue in the next few years.

Changed in rosetta:
importance: Medium → Low
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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