What is the language "British"?

[Timothy Murphy]

Duncan Anderson wrote:

> On Monday, 28 August 2006 15:25, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I was installing FC-5 yesterday,
>> and I noticed that when asked to choose my language,
>> I was given an extensive list which included "British" but not "English".
>>
>> I never heard this language described as "British" before.
> <snip>
> 
> Presumably, they mean "British English" as opposed to "American English".
> What about other forms of "non-American" English?

I don't think that was the case here (during FC-5 installation).
No other versions of English, such as US-English, were offered;
British was the only English-like language on offer.

Incidentally, the whole language-keyboard setting seemed very confusing.
I wanted to choose a UK keyboard (as opposed to US)
but with the euro in place of the pound.
When I chose "Irish" keyboard it assumed I wanted to write in Gaelic.



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