916273 - Turn on en-GB for United Kingdom locale

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: webmaker.org, defect)

Description

[Jacob [:Jacob]]

Even though en-UK is exactly the same as en-US content wise, it is courteous and avoids offending folks out there to have en-UK turned on and redirected from that locale instead of seeing en-US.

It will also open the door as a first step toward UK localization

Comment 1

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

With the way our localization works, we need to actually do the translation before we can enable that locale. While it would be easy to do the en-GB translation, Ali and Igor are currently prioritizing the Thai and Russian translations so we should punt on doing this for now.

Comment 2

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

I think this is an interesting idea, especially for our English-only-speaking team members, who can't easily get involved with localization.  If we had some other en-* locales (en-CA, en-GB) it might help people gain a better understanding of localization within Webmaker.

If we do want this, it needs to get done via Transifex, where you can request a new lang/locale to get added.  See https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/webmaker/.  We've already added Korean and Dutch because of this.

Comment 3

[Pomax]

Exactly the same? Certainly not. There are exactly enough differences in phrasing and conjugation to make a proper localisation an excellent idea.