English English spelling

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Compile and install
2. Pop up the "Add Gadgets" window
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

One of the first gadgets you're offered is a "Battery metre".  Although the
spelling of metre/meter varies depending on meaning and language, in no
language is this the correct spelling.  A simple lookup table:

                         Unit of length        Measuring device
American English            meter                   meter
English English             metre                   meter

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.9.1  Debian Lenny

Please provide any additional information below.

It's a "Battery meter".

As an aside, it's very irritating to the English to see American English
described as "English" and English English described as "UK English". 
Whilst American English is undoubtedly the dominant language these days, it
still isn't the English language because it isn't what the English speak. 
The last software package which I saw make this mistake was (the now
defunct) Applixware.

The more usual way of offering a choice is to qualify both, e.g.:

"US English" or "UK English".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jhwint...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2008 at 9:25

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(I'm a Chinese, so forgive me for my bad English grammar. :)

Thanks for your report. I'll forward the "metre/meter" bug to the author of the
gadget. It's actually not a bug of this product.

I think our "English" means "generic English, which may be US English, or some
English that is understandable by most English-speaking people, though there 
are some
incompatibilities", rather than "US English". In fact, we don't support "en-US"
locale for now, just like we don't support "en-AU" locale either.

Original comment by phnix...@gmail.com on 16 Jun 2008 at 2:53

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Original comment by phnix...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2008 at 1:25

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