Addition request: alsatian
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Wed Jan 9 16:33:51 CET 2008
At 06:52 -0800 2008-01-09, Doug Ewell wrote:
>"en-US" and "en-CA" mean, roughly, English with specific features
>generally thought to be characteristic of the United States and
>Canada, respectively. They do not imply that a significant
>dialectical boundary exists between any arbitrarily selected point
>in the U.S. and any arbitrarily selected point in Canada, which
>boundary does not exist between points within the U.S. or within
>Canada.
To me, en-CA means "my preferred locale" because Canadian English
spelling tends to be closer to Oxford spelling (colour, centre, tyre,
civilize) than en-US or en-GB. Under Mac OS X in some apps I get to
choose Canadian spell-checking. (I wish I could choose en-Oxford
though.)
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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