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

[Albert Astals Cid]

El divendres, 11 d’agost de 2023, a les 6:29:41 (CEST), AnnoyingRains va 
escriure:
> Is this feasible?

What is "this"?

I have the feeling that you got quite detailed answers in the previous emails 
by me and Ingo, so I need more than "this" if you're asking something that our 
previous emails didn't anwer.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> - 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