en_AU translation - is this being done? - Possibility to fallback to en_GB by default?

[AnnoyingRains]

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:30 AM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>
> El dissabte, 29 de juliol de 2023, a les 5:38:27 (CEST), Kye Potter va
> escriure:
> > Hello! I noticed that the en_au language is marked as unsupported in the
> > Plasma System Settings Region and Language settings, causing things to
> > fall back to American English, when Australian English is much, much
> > closer to British English, with only a few very subtle differences (that
> > many Aussies don't even notice).
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to set a default fallback for Australian English to
> > British English to avoid this issue?
>
> As far as I know there's no language fallback concept in our translation
> system. Each user can configure language fallbacks for their system if they
> wish so.

Some distros pick Australian English during setup, which KDE marks as
unsupported in System Settings. While this is a packaging issue, we
can't rely on every distro setting fallbacks for every case like this.
Also, many users will see the American English and just think "oh, it
doesn't support British/Aussie English" and not look into it further.
As only supporting American English is common in software.

>
> > It would be good if overrides can
> > be set, as the language is slightly different, see:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English
> >
> >
> > I am happy to start a translation group for Australian English to get
> > this started!
>
> What do you mean by "this", you want an en_AU translation folder similar to
> what we have for en_GB ?

Yes, although much of en_GB can be reused, so I was wondering if that
could be used as a base instead of en_US, as only a few minor tweaks
will be needed (resizable vs resizeable for example).
While this translation would be good, I don't want to end up manually
duplicating a lot of work from the en_GB team.

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>