Summary of Fortnightly Meeting - June 27th 2006

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 22:55, Pete Brown <pete at geekbuilt.com.au> wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 21:29, James Purser wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 20:50 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > BTW, if memory serves me correctly, I am responsible for renaming
> > > "Trash" to "Garbage Bin". "Rubbish Bin" would be an acceptable
> > > alternative.
>
> heh
> what about "Recycling Bin"?

Please no... :p

> > I'm going to go with Sridhar on this one. Australian English, despite
> > its many differences in terms of slang usage, is still too close to UK
> > English to be considered a different dialect.
>
> yeah i agree with that.
> but there are a few differences that might be cool to have added or
> changed.
>
> there is something i noticed about using the en language packs for kde.
> well i think they are in the language pack but i don't really know.
> the google url's for the search engines in konqueror are all google.co.uk.
> it would be cool to have them use google.com.au.

Ah, good point. How should we deal with this? Maybe we should take en_GB and 
make some minor modifications to 'convert' it to en_AU?

What I'd like to see is a definable fallback language. In the case of en_AU, 
everything that isn't localised should automatically borrow its translation 
from en_GB. At this point, I have no clue what such a system would require.

> > America has had a couple of hundred years more to branch away from the
> > trunk line that Australia has.
>
> from what i have learnt they stuck to a lot of the spellings used from when
> they "emigrated" hence the different spelling of aluminium, though i think
> that's due to split regarding how it should be spelt.

It's explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling


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