Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users writes: > I just keep getting reminded By your users? By Tommy Robinson fans, Boris Johnson, and football hooligans? Or just when you see it in the list of supported languages? > that we specifically support USA English and we offer no other > English languag

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 14:17 -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 7/8/2019 1:51 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > > I just keep getting reminded that we specifically support USA English > > and we offer no other English language support. > > I'

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 7/8/2019 1:51 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: I just keep getting reminded that we specifically support USA English and we offer no other English language support. I'm not clear on what other English needs support. (This kind of seems like a solution in search of a problem.) La

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 13:32 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 7/8/19 1:00 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > > > > Just to be clear, I'm not proposing changes to any po strings, rather > > just the labels. The end result would be just "Engli

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 7/8/19 1:00 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > > Just to be clear, I'm not proposing changes to any po strings, rather > just the labels. The end result would be just "English" in the list of > available languages for a list instead of "English (USA)". Actually, you are proposing a

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 12:46 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 7/8/19 12:15 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > > > > > Now I'm confused. :-) I know about the differences in UK and US English > > are in general (color vs colour, etc), but I d

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 7/8/19 12:15 PM, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > > Now I'm confused. :-) I know about the differences in UK and US English > are in general (color vs colour, etc), but I don't know about the > differences within Mailman. Adding to my confusion is that my Mailman > installs only have

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 7/8/19 3:06 PM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote: > Hi Jim > > I do not know about where the English (US) and English (UK) languages differ > in Mailman. But in school, half a century ago, I learnt (learned) about the > differences in general. For example color / colour, center / cen

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 2019-07-08 at 21:06 +0200, Christian F Buser wrote: > Hi Jim > > I do not know about where the English (US) and English (UK) languages differ > in Mailman. But in school, half a century ago, I learnt (learned) about the > differences in ge

Re: [Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users
Hi Jim I do not know about where the English (US) and English (UK) languages differ in Mailman. But in school, half a century ago, I learnt (learned) about the differences in general. For example color / colour, center / centre, etc. And there are other expressions which are completely differe

[Mailman-Users] English (USA)

2019-07-08 Thread Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 It has been brought to my attention again that Mailman supports one dialect of English, but declares that it the USA variant. What in Mailman makes the English language (translations?) specific to USA? In the interest of world perspectives, would a