Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Donate site and English (US)

International English sounds great. Just did my research.

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On Apr 9, 2013, at 18:28, Robinson Tryon <bishop.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> > Le 09/04/13 01:24 PM, Dave Johnson a écrit :
> >
> > > In terms of spelling... North American English or British English, which
> > > version are you preferring? If you don't like the reference to the US for
> > > the sake of opinion... Lets stick with North American English then.
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > We have no nl EN groups and use international-EN as our base by convention,
>
> I've never heard of "International-EN", but I'll go read up on it now :-)
>
> > It would be as if we had put FR-CA, and ES-CO as language designation which
> > we do not do.
>
> Just as a point of clarification, I believe that en-US is a very
> common default in many FOSS distros or software packages, so I think
> that in this case there might be some justification based on
> consistency. Personally, 'International-EN' sounds like a fine choice.
>
> > Therefore by simple logic EN should also follow the same
> > format as the rest of the language choices.
>
> That seems reasonable to me. If we do have just one version of the
> text for all English-speaking visitors, we should put an emphasis on
> clarity and try to avoid idiomatic phrases or country-specific
> vocabulary that could be confusing to a chunk of our native English
> speakers.
>
> --R
>
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