Default language is en_US but mapped to the UK flag

qTranslate-Team / qtranslate-x

Wordpress plugin: Adds user-friendly and database-friendly multilingual content management and translation support.

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Default language is en_US but mapped to the UK flag #596

Open williamli opened 5 years ago

williamli commented 5 years ago

After using qTranslateX for many many years, this just popped into my head... Shouldn't the flag be US flag if the locale is en_US or if the flag is UK, shouldn't the locale be en_UK just to keep things consistent?

This is the default setting after all 🤣

herrvigg commented 5 years ago

Ahah i wondered it myself! I guess it's because most of the content is en_US rather than en_UK but you want to display an english flag to the users rather than an american. Legacy of the crown ;)

williamli commented 5 years ago

yeah @herrvigg so the question is should we follow this "legacy" which is really inconsistent or should we do the right thing and set the correct example...

herrvigg commented 5 years ago

I wouldn't change it, the default settings looks good to me. On the world scale it's more natural for the users to look for an english flag. But statistically speaking most of the text is in en_US compared to en_UK. It's up to the WP admin to change these settings for specific needs.