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gnome-control-center package

Gnome Settings is inconsistent with how it respects spelling differences due to locale

Bug #1754823 reported by Ken T on 2018-03-10

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

(As seen in the latest daily build of 32bit Ubuntu Budgie)

See attached screenshot, which shows a couple of examples of this issue:

1) different spellings of the same word within the one screen ("color" and "colour").
2) spellings of words according to British English ("Behaviour") and American English ("maximized").

Ideally, all text strings would respect the locale / language settings selected upon installation (in my case, British English / Australian locale). This would apply to words such as (color/colour, words ending in ized/ised, and any other words which are spelt/spelled differently between British and American English).

Thanks,
Ken.
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Ken T (professorsnapper) wrote on 2018-03-10:

Two examples of inconsistency within Gnome Settings when dealing with differences in spelling due to locale.png Edit (71.4 KiB, image/png)

Ken T (professorsnapper) on 2018-03-10

tags:

added: bionic

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2018-03-12

affects:

gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-03-12:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2018-03-12

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote on 2018-03-12:

Thanks for your report!

The original strings are normally American English. Other flavors of English are handled as translations. If your selected language is British English, and the British English translation for a string is missing, it falls back to the original string.

So I don't think this is a bug. Ideally all translations would be complete always, but that will never happen. You may want to nudge the English UK translators team about it (<https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-en-gb>), but I suppose it would be hard for them to act on your general observation. Closing this bug report.

Please feel free to file new reports about *specific* missing English UK translations which you find especially disturbing.