On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK
> English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my
> browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong.

So it disappeared from your browser, not from the world.

Phew.

Browsers sometimes want you to think they're the world, but this is
a sleazy trick by the ad industry. Don't believe them.

> How did that happen?  I'm sure I used to have the UK English
> dictionaries installed.  More to the point what do I need to do to get
> UK English back?  :-)

Perhaps this is a dark plot between Elon M and Nigel F :-)

On a more serious note: browsers bring their own internationalisation
packages. For the Debian Firefox ESR, they look somewhat like

  firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb

(Google's abomination is left as an exercise for the reader).

Cheers
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t

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