[ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [gedmurphy] 25001: allow the Americans their incorrect spellings and add a correct UK resource file ; )

Ged Murphy gedmurphy at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 16:06:54 CET 2006


Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
> Ged Murphy wrote:
> ...
>   
>> After Alex noted about the Canadian version, I had a quick look for the 
>> English Canadian sublang ID, but I couldn't find anything.
>> Do English speaking Canadians use the US language?
>>     
>
> the U.S. variant of English is accepted as valid, but 
> generally not used nor taught -- that is to say when going to public 
> school, words were taught with a more en-UK spelling ...

I was referring to the the Windows sublang id.
UK uses LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK
US uses LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US

After an initial quick search here 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixuwebqy_7gfn.asp 
I couldn't find anything for Canada, however I've just stumbled across
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN

Ged.



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