So it does - I didn't actually think of checking that option so just typed en_GB to see what happened. I can confirm that selecting 'en' from the first menu and then 'en_GB' from the additional window does have the desired effect.shinobar wrote:If you select 'en English' from the pulldown at the 1st dialog, the 2nd dialog appears and you can select en_US,en_GB, en_AU, and etc.Jades wrote:IIRC that (en) uses US English spelling. Interestingly, when my machine is set to en_GB the option for en_US isn't listed in Personalize Settings.
I leave it switched off myself, and use good old fashioned iso-8859-1 (Western European) on my websites. Main reason why I do it is backwards-compatibility.shinobar wrote:You can also enable UTF-8 encoding with marking on the checkbox.
The most obvious reason for it not being mandatory for en_GB is that is probably that special characters are rarely used in that language and any that may turn up are covered by iso-8859-1 Western European. Similar reasoning probably goes for most French use. I'm not sure which character set is most common in the USA and Canada but it probably wouldn't cover all of the special characters in other encodings.shinobar wrote:Regarding the UTF-8 encoding, it is an option for English.
For French is the same, but associated '(Reccomended)'.
If you select Russian, there are no option, but forced UTF-8 encoding.
I am not sure these rules are proper. Give me your advice --> @ to all the readers
Regarding Russian, there is iso-8859-5 for Cyrillic alphabet but presumably UTF-8 is considered to be a better choice.
The Wikipedia article on UTF-8 may be of use. In general, it seems that the key reason why it's recommended is that it has all of the various special characters in it rather than a subset as with the older iso character encodings.