Re: British English has disappeared
tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 02:25:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm running Debian 12 on my laptop, when I installed it I had UK
> > English but now it has somehow disappeared and, for example, my
> > browser claims that 'colour' is spelt wrong.
>
> So it disappeared from your browser, not from the world.
>
> Phew.
>
> Browsers sometimes want you to think they're the world, but this is
> a sleazy trick by the ad industry. Don't believe them.
>
> > How did that happen? I'm sure I used to have the UK English
> > dictionaries installed. More to the point what do I need to do to get
> > UK English back? :-)
>
> Perhaps this is a dark plot between Elon M and Nigel F :-)
>
> On a more serious note: browsers bring their own internationalisation
> packages. For the Debian Firefox ESR, they look somewhat like
>
> firefox-esr-l10n-en-gb
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> (Google's abomination is left as an exercise for the reader).
>
I don't think that's my problem for two reasons: 1 - I don't use
Firefox and 2 - The British English dictionary is missing from
/usr/share/dict, all I have is usr/share/dict/american-english.
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Chris Green
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