switching to en as the default locale

[Matthew East]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:27 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 22:07 -0800, Jeff Schering wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > As per the docteam meeting last friday, I have started testing for an
> > eventual switch from the "C" locale to the "en" locale as the default
> > locale for ubuntu docs.

> Are you sure scrollkeeper supports "en" like it should?

The following conversation might help:

 [09:42:18] < mdke> hello all. the english language ubuntu documentation is currently installed at -C, I've just been trying to move 
          it to -en, but scrollkeeper doesn't seem to want to know. Can this be done?
 [09:43:55] <@shaunm> scrollkeeper is usually pretty dumb
 [09:44:03] < mdke> it likes C?
 [09:44:14] <@shaunm> the thing with scrollkeeper is, if it doesn't have a translation for the language, it refuses to show any 
          documents in that language
 [09:44:25] <@shaunm> and as far as it knows, it doesn't have a translation for en
 [09:45:05] <@shaunm> so if you want to do it for ubuntu, what you'll have to do is make a dummy translation for en
 [09:48:30] < mdke> do your docs use C?
 [09:54:04] <@shaunm> yeah, we always just use the C locale for the source english docs
 [09:54:08] <@shaunm> it's just easier that way

Given this, I think it may not be worth abandoning the C locale. Thoughts?

Matt
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