OT: Language picking

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Fri Oct 6 09:57:08 CEST 2006


At 01:42 -0400 2006-10-06, John Cowan wrote:

>So you pick US, find English in the indigenous living languages,
>and then you can pick en, en-us, en-* for likely countries, and
>then oddities like en-fr, en-dk, etc.

I don't think I get it. I use the Irish Locale because I live in 
Ireland, then I change the date preferences to the ISO 2006-10-06 
format, and when I have a choice, I select my preferred as en_CA 
because that's the variety closest to Oxford spelling (colour, 
civilize).
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com


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