Just like there is many different dialects of Spanish, and other languages the same is true of English, many parts of the language are shared, and the most critical part for most people is making sure that things like Paper settings, date, and number formats are correct for their location. It is also critical that the local nuances though looking at what is in place on disk all the other languages are symlinks to en_GB except for en_CA and en_US
Dennis On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 7:45 AM Germano Massullo <germano.massu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All desktop oriented Fedora installers install on the system packages: > hunspell > hunspell-en > hunspell-en-GB > hunspell-en-US > > When a user opens the language list of the spell checker, is has ~24 > different English options, like English (Antigua and Barbuda), English > (Australia), English (Bahamas), English (Belize), etc. (See screenshot [1]) > People who are not native English speakers have this list even bigger because > they will have their own language entry, plus others. > > Since the huge list is brought by hunspell-en, can we just ship Fedora with > hunspell-en-GB and hunspell-en-US ? > Another option could be to move all non GB/USA English variants to other > hunspell-en-* packages as I said in ticket [2] > > > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1701536 > [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1858241 > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
