Re: choose-mirror country codes
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 21:52, Joey Hess wrote:
> Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > The countrycodes are used to provide a more "neutral" and
> > defined identity of country than English name.
> >
> > It is easy to confuse "English name" for country with
> > "translated name" leading to bugs you won't see those bugs if you are using
> > English.
> >
> > Also, The "English name" for countries is not unique.
> > You need to avoid one package using "USA", another using
> > "America", another using "United States of America".
>
> All well and good, but when I run choose-mirror in en_US, I see "US".
> What needs to be done for me to see any of the above?
The language should be set to en_US rather than C in the absense of
languagechooser. Then English translations will be picked.
I'll investigate as soon as I can in detail; I think it just means
changing the C.UTF-8 to en.UTF-8
Regards,
Alastair
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