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.

Martin wrote:

> 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.

In article <ue1TNYT6GHA.5100@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, martin@invalidname
(Martin) wrote:

> *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.

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John (john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk) Remove the obvious to reply...

>>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.

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

>>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.

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

Martin wrote:

>
>>>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.
>
> 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.