Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Paul Johnson:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> > Oh!  Canadian!  And here the whole time I've been thinking, "California
> > needs its own dialect?  Well, yeah, I guess they probably do."
> 
> That's rather insulting to Canadians to compare them to Californians.

Come on, Paul.  We expect that sort of thing from Yanquis, don't we?  :-)

The thing that really bothers me is if en_CA and en_GB both call up
British spelling locale, spell checkers are going to b*tch at me for
not including enough vowels in "al-yoo-min-ee-um" & etc.  Good thing I
can spell.


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