Bug#929923: missing dictionaries.xcu confuses non-US English locales (e.g. en_AU)
- To: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>, 929923@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#929923: missing dictionaries.xcu confuses non-US English locales (e.g. en_AU)
- From: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:34:55 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20190820193455.GA7241@rene-engelhard.de>
- Reply-to: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>, 929923@bugs.debian.org
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Hi,
sorry for dropping the ball on this.
On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 04:11:30PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> I can dig out the contemporary th_en_US_v2.dat from
> snapshots.debian.org, and do a three-way diff between it,
> mythes-en-au, and current (LO6.3) mythes-en-us. That will show
> quantitatively how different they are.
Would be nice as data.
> > It feels kind of weird to link -au to -us, as afaik there are effective
> > differences between the two.
>
> This is what LO does on non-Debian platforms.
> To me, that's a pretty compelling argument.
Don't think so. With the same argument you would symlink de_CH to de_DE
- even when Swiss German replaces all "ß" with "ss".
Which definitely would be a bad thing.
> Also note that on Debian currently, en_GB &c have *no* options for a thesaurus in apt.
And what are you going to do about color vs. colour etc.?
Regards,
Rene
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