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Eclipse Community ForumsRequest: Allow Commonwealth English locales/ResourceBundles to inherit from en_GB
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/181655/576282/#msg_576282
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Allow Commonwealth English locales/ResourceBundles to inherit from en_GB
(Or more generally, arbitrary inheritance between locales in
ResourceBundle/NLS lookups.)
With bug 223378 resolved, Babel has support for en_CA and en_AU
translations, and we'll probably have en_GB soon. The Commonwealth
dialects of English are not identical, but often very similar, eg for
the spelling of "colour" and "favourite".
Obviously, every locale inherits from the default locale, so text which
is identical in US English and Commonwealth English needn't be
translated, but for phrases like "Display in favorites menu", it would
be great if it could be translated just once in en_GB (for instance),
and then picked up by the other Commonwealth locales.
(Alternatively, perhaps it would make sense to define an artificial
locale en_CWTH, from which en_GB, en_AU and en_CA could inherit. But I
don't think so!)