neilw2 Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Hello,Can anyone tell me whether Vista will support standard English (i.e. worldwide UK English) not just US-English. I'd hate to think yet another generation of people in Britain/Australia/India/etc will grow up thinking words like 'color', 'personalize', 'canceled', etc. are the correct spellings. This omission from XP really annoys me, especially when about 40 other languages are supported.Thanks.Neil.
jondercik Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Those are the correct spellings. If you want your language you write it.
neilw2 Posted January 18, 2006 Author Posted January 18, 2006 (edited) Last time I looked, 35% of the world population spoke English (about 104 countries). The majority of which speak British English. I don't know about you, but if Windows can support numerous minor variants of languages such as Chinese, etc. then surely the most common variant of the top speaking language should be supported 'out of the box'. It might not matter to America, but it does the rest of the world. You wouldn't like me to force you to write 'colour', 'personalise', and 'cancelled', would you? Edited January 18, 2006 by neilw2
jcarle Posted January 18, 2006 Posted January 18, 2006 Those are the correct spellings. If you want your language you write it.You're out of line and obviously don't know what you're talking about. Even Canadian English is different the US English. If it wasn't for the fact that I do programming, I'd still be writing COLOUR just like the brits do. @neilw2:Welcome aboard mate, don't let the random thorns turn you away. Welcome to MSFN.
morpheus_04 Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 Umm, WinXP does support Australian English for one, I know that. Whenever I install Windows on a computer, when the language and regional options come up I always set the keyboard layout to 'English - Australia', and the same with date time, currency, location, etc... The options are all there. But, the settings only work in Word and such, if you goto 'Color' options in display, it doesn't show as the Australian spelling.Whether Vista will support it or not... who knows?
Biohead Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 I got XP using UK Eng fine! As for Vista, build 5270 supports UK eng too - so surely the final will.
fizban2 Posted January 20, 2006 Posted January 20, 2006 neilw2, do you mean support uk-english as a default like american english? because like biohead said you can add UK english fine...
Siginet Posted January 21, 2006 Posted January 21, 2006 Will vista be supporting "Jibberish" as well? I speak it nativley! Don't worry... I am sure Vista will support most all languages.
suryad Posted January 21, 2006 Posted January 21, 2006 Yeah coming from a background in UK english, it was quite weird to see Americans spelling so differently...but it does make sense why not have the u in colour...apparently the setllers here despite speaking English wanted to be as different from their english roots as is possible and hence they struck out the u for example in a lot of words. I swear I learned that in a history class.
Biohead Posted January 23, 2006 Posted January 23, 2006 Just go into the language options, add language, select English (UK) then chnage the keyboard settings too. It's really annoying installing vista, and when it's finished mixing up " with @ and vice versa
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