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

[AnnoyingRains]

Is this feasible?

- Kye Potter

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:33 AM AnnoyingRains <annoyingrain5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >