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

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Mon Aug 7 08:43:25 BST 2023


On Montag, 7. August 2023 00:30:12 CEST Albert Astals Cid 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.

To add to what Albert wrote: Technically, the default fallback is not American 
English, but the untranslated texts. Since we use American English for almost 
all untranslated texts, in practice, American English is perceived as 
fallback.

Regards,
Ingo
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