On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 06:01, Norbert Bollow wrote:
Wouldn't the "English (USA)" label feel like a slap in the face for such a user?
As much as I'm itching to, I really do /not/ want to get into a political discussion on this mailing list. I'm happy to discuss off-list as time allows with anybody who could give a shit what /I/ think. :)
Here's a compromise that might actually be more useful technically. Let's say every language tag in that pull down had the language code appended to it, which would include any country and variant code, if used. These codes would not be translated, since the RFCs specify them as English letters.
Thus, "English (USA)" would change to "English (en)", and we'd see other entries like "France (fr)" and "Portuguese (pt_BR)". You'd still see "(en)" in the Japanese translation too. Would this be too jarring for non-English, non-European users?
-Barry