Re: More translation stuff

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:06 +0000, David Lodge wrote:
> Yet more questions about i18n... As part of the recent translations (of  
> gnome-applets) I changed the translation of the "About me..." dialogue to  
> read "County" instead of "State/Province" as I thought it represented the  
> GB perspective better...
> 
> Since then there has been some discussion on the Ubuntu list which makes  
> me wonder whether "County" is the best for all locales that use en_GB,  
> including the fact that KDE uses "Region".
> 
> Would "Region" be a better translation?

Doesn't really answer your question, but I suppose one factor is "what
is this information actually used for"?  Are there any apps that need to
know what state/province/county/region I live in, and if not, why are we
asking for it at all?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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