On 6/28/06, Sridhar Dhanapalan <<a href="mailto:sridhar@dhanapalan.com">sridhar@dhanapalan.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 22:55, Pete Brown <<a href="mailto:pete@geekbuilt.com.au">pete@geekbuilt.com.au</a>> 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 <a href="http://google.co.uk">google.co.uk</a>. > it would be cool to have them use <a href="http://google.com.au">google.com.au</a>. 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?</blockquote><div> This is exactly what was proposed some time ago, however, it appears that this is not possible at the moment.... I hope I'm wrong. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.</blockquote><div> Be nice :) if we could do that, a en_AU language pack that depends on en_GB and takes most stuff from there. Or is localisation maybe a separate package? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> > 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling</a> -- Sridhar Dhanapalan  [Yama | <a href="http://www.pclinuxonline.com/">http://www.pclinuxonline.com/</a>]   {GnuPG/OpenPGP: <a href="http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc">http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc</a>    0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4}                 Windows: Designed for the Internet.                 The Internet: Designed for UNIX. -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div> MatthewV -- matt