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Originally posted by verdyp
I was told that English had several variants, and there's today a clear distinction between American English and British English.
If you think that some translations should be specialized to British English, it is possible in Limewire, by adding only the necessary modified resources into the Messages Bundle with the "en_GB" code.
For now, no one has demonstrated that such specialization was needed, and so Limewire uses the language where it is mostly developped: American English.
This is clear on the translate page that indicates "English (US)" and not just "English".
So instead of making such unjustified critics, feel free to provide the necessary changes for a British specialization. For now Limewire uses a "pan-English" resource file as the default, but already uses the various locale specializations for each English-spoken area supported by Java: it is already true for the format of dates (we currently don't use the localization of currency amounts)
We are open to suggestions if you feel we need it... |
The differences between the variants in the languages are minor and easily found if you bothered to do a simple google search. But I'm not asking for an UK English translation as us Brits are not a stupid bunch - we can work out that 'Center' = 'Center' and 'Color' = 'Colour'.
If we really felt the need to segregate ourselves from your perversion of our language then we would have asked for a 'g33k' and 'txt spk' translation too
All us Brits want is a little recognition for the use of OUR language and as i can see from the links you have posted, in the thread i started, that I'm certainly not the first person to have been angered by this.