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Open mSupply represents our most recent advancement in the Logistics Management Information System (LMIS), expanding on more than two decades of development inherited from the well-established legacy of the original mSupply.
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Consolidate British/US english #4046

Open fergie-nz opened 5 months ago

fergie-nz commented 5 months ago

Consolidate NZ(British) vs US spelling across app.

Should our english app be in US or British english? Should we try have consistency across OMS? Should we try to have consistency across all of our apps and docs?

Describe the solution you'd like 🎁

adamdewey commented 5 months ago

Nice Ferg, I think possibly best solution would to be have a translation for each and have one as default?

In terms of numbers, if you discount India which doesn't really use our products, then US English significantly outnumbers British English both in numbers of people and number of countries.

US English is usually preferred for international audiences, including bodies such as UN, WHO

roxy-dao commented 5 months ago

I thought we're using British English 🤔 do you have any examples of inconsistencies?

mark-prins commented 5 months ago

we are using British / NZ English yup. The issue arose with the new immunisation work - given that the client for that is using US English, all of the reference docs refer to Immunization and Catalog. I'm somewhat reluctantly leaning to US spellings for those, even though I don't like 'catalog'

roxy-dao commented 5 months ago

we are using British / NZ English yup. The issue arose with the new immunisation work - given that the client for that is using US English, all of the reference docs refer to Immunization and Catalog. I'm somewhat reluctantly leaning to US spellings for those, even though I don't like 'catalog'

Can we just have two English lang??

mark-prins commented 5 months ago

yes, can do. Similar to how we have two Français - adding in an en-US option would be fine. and better than a complete change. the only decision then is whether to default to US or BR? Thanks @roxy-dao 🙏

roxy-dao commented 5 months ago

yes, can do. Similar to how we have two Français - adding in an en-US option would be fine. and better than a complete change. the only decision then is whether to default to US or BR? Thanks @roxy-dao 🙏

I prefer British, but guessing en-US is more popular because of economic and cultural influences >.>