Comment 3 for bug 228077

New comment from upstream (which I find satisfactory).

Maybe then we should change the package from gtk to gnome-*?

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 Comment #3 from Owen Taylor (gtk+ developer, points: 25)
2008-05-08 17:44 UTC [reply]

English is also the second language of many people who ues C+acute as their
first language. While their are certainly numerically more people who speak
languages with the cedilla, there are some major languages (Polish in
particular) that go the other way.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86, though I think the list there is not
exhaustive.)

There is a perfectly good way of representing "I want a English UI but
preferences for some other lanugage" ... the LC_* variables. (GTK+ checks
LC_CTYPE for picking the default IM module.) The fact that there is no
good interface for setting this in GNOME is not a reason to change GTK+.

As a bonus, this will give people the right collation, currency values,
thousands separators, and so forth.