Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 06:01:28PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Great Britain usually refers to England, Scotland and Wales, i.e. the > >"main island". > > > > United Kingdom == England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland > > So, what's the translation we want here? > > For Catalan, >

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-13 Thread Jordi Mallach
[ catching up, yeah :) ] On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:32:08AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > Just to clarify for those who are confused: > > England == the stuff south of Scotland and east of Wales (I doubt any >English people will like that definition) > > Great Britain usually refers to En

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:13:17AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Hi! > > I from time to time check the template files when I notice updates > there if new things are added, or just in general (mainly to keep the > german language up to date) > > And it's not the first time now that

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:34:17AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > change everything to UK for GB is not really a country but an island with > no political representation of it's own. Well, like Ionel said, UK basically means Great Britain. :) I think that this duplication exists because of two th

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Ionel Mugurel Ciobîc? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-11-08 11:17]: > In Romanian ``Marea Britanie'' means Great Britain, ``Anglia'' means > England and ``Regatul Unit'' would mean United Kingdom. Well, I knew that I did made a mistake somewhere, thanks for finding it :) Yes, it seems to be quite n

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 8-11-2001, at 08h 13'17", Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > I'm currently in the english/template/debian/countries.wml file, and if > I interpret the translations correct, it seems that the following > language tags seem to translate it to England: > >'GB' => {'EN' => 'United Kingdom', >

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread peter karlsson
Gerfried Fuchs: > With a "TODO" comment above it. Would it do harm to change the 'GB' to > Great Britain instead of letting it be a duplicate of the UK? "GB" is the ISO country code for the country, whereas "UK" is the Internet topdomain. So I guess they need to be duplicated. Regarding the Sw

Re: United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-11-08 08:13]: >'GB' => {'EN' => 'United Kingdom', . I found out that there is also the following line there: >'UK' => {'EN' => 'United Kingdom', With a "TODO" comment above it. Would it do harm to change the 'GB' to Great Britain instead o

United Kindom != England

2001-11-08 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! I from time to time check the template files when I notice updates there if new things are added, or just in general (mainly to keep the german language up to date) And it's not the first time now that I noticed that the United Kingdom is translated wrong to England - but not on