Regional settings don't work for UK

[Martin]

I have set my XP Professional to English UK, and the language used is NOT
English - rather it uses American

How come we do not get our own language unlike people with other languages?

Got the same bug with my home XP Pro,and a Win98 PC all are UK regional and
English UK but wrong spellings.

 

[P. Johnson]

I have set my XP Professional to English UK, and the language used is NOT
English - rather it uses American

Probably because Windows is produced by an American company. Try using KDE,
many programs understand the British/American spelling differences and will
provide the best match based on your region settings.

 

[John K.Eason]

*From:* "Martin" <martin@invalidname>

I have set my XP Professional to English UK, and the language used is
NOT English - rather it uses American

How come we do not get our own language unlike people with other
languages?

Got the same bug with my home XP Pro,and a Win98 PC all are UK regional
and English UK but wrong spellings.

Regional settings in Windows don't have anything to do with the language
or spelling of the operating system itself. That's hard-coded into the OS.
They just control how currency, numbers and time/dates are displayed and
to change the *input* language you can use for entering text.

Regards
John ([email protected]) Remove the obvious to reply...

 

[Martin]

Regional settings in Windows don't have anything to do with the language
They do French and German screen languages, so there should be a way of
Anglicising it.

our is pronounced differently to or

The American color is pronounced differently to colour

 

[Martin]

Probably because Windows is produced by an American company. Try using
KDE,
So why do the French get a French version and Germans get a German version.
Why can't their be a British version?

 

[P. Johnson]

So why do the French get a French version and Germans get a German
version. Why can't their be a British version?

If you're that hung up on dialect, you might try a Linux distribution and
KDE, where nitpicky details between dialects get a little bit more respect
in the internationalization than it does in Windows.