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bybgulino, October 20, 2009
To get the U.S. flag:
Get the en-US language pack at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/languages/translations-for-joomla/5341. Install it.
On the back-end go to COMPONENTS -> JOOMLAFISH -> LANGUAGES.
Highlight the U.S. extension and change the "Short code" field for English (United States) from empty to "us".
As replacing the U.K. flag with the U.S. flag is the major reason many use the US English translation, it would be nice if this worked out of the box.
Get the en-US language pack at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/languages/translations-for-joomla/5341. Install it.
On the back-end go to COMPONENTS -> JOOMLAFISH -> LANGUAGES.
Highlight the U.S. extension and change the "Short code" field for English (United States) from empty to "us".
As replacing the U.K. flag with the U.S. flag is the major reason many use the US English translation, it would be nice if this worked out of the box.
Owner's reply
Unfortunately, it seems there is little language pack authors can do about this. From the code, it looks like joomfish strips the first part of the language tag (en-US, de-AT, etc.) to create the default short code.
It doesn't make much sense to me because the first part is the language and the second is the country, yet they are using the first part to choose a country flag. That's why they had to create the en.gif file when they already had a uk.gif file.
The same problem will occur with other English locales (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, etc.) Swiss and Austrians will be stuck with the German flag; Mexicans and Cubans will be stuck with the Spanish flag.