[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #48152: en as default language instead of en_us

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#48152: en as default language instead of en_us
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 Reporter:  colomet      |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  I18N         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:  close        |     Focuses:
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Comment (by tobifjellner):

 @getsnoopy
 "we made a decision a long time ago..." should here rather be read as:
 Originally, WordPress was developed as an application that was only using
 en_US. When localization was added, en_US was reserved as the source
 locale.
 If we would change that value now, then **there will be** a lot of strange
 compatibility problems with many themes and plugins, especially with
 custom-developed code.

 And since you main argument is that you want to be able to just declare
 "en" as your locale, then this would be easy accomplished by just adding
 International English as a new locale. We won't even need to add any
 translations to this locale, since WordPress by default uses the source
 string if there's no translation available.

 My biggest concern about that route is rather that some developers will
 see this as an invitation to more prominently than today display other
 languages in their code, and then just translate their
 English|French|Spanish strings to "en", leaving en_US with the original
 strings, and making translations to other languages trickier, since you'll
 then not have our "common denominator" English as a source string.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/48152#comment:21>
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