What is en_US ?

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:37:41 -0700
Tim Alberts <talberts at msiscales.com> wrote:

> Here's a thought, how about quit making up new languages and start 
> combining others.  

Thats a natural process of borrowing anyway but its naïve to think that
language stands alone. Language is tied to many things and the fact that
we have en_GB and people who strongly object to the use of en_US is tied
to culture, history and of course politics.

In other cases (eg Russian in former eastern block countries) the
political baggage is enormous. A language like arabic has all sorts of
important religious and cultural links across many nations.

"Cenedl Heb Iaith, Cenedl Heb Calon" as they say here..

	'A nation without a language is a nation without a heart'


(and as an on topic aside I've just finished 100% coverage of the Fedora
tools into en_GB using the rather excellent en_GB.pl from the Gnome
project and a bit of hand fixing)

So internationlisation and localisation is very important. There are
billions of people who do not speak English and are getting their hands
on computers.

Alan