[Bug 18461] New: Problem in English localization of Winelib programs

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18461

Summary: Problem in English localization of Winelib programs
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
               URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=50499
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        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: programs
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Most of the Winelib programs in Wine, such as winecfg, contain this in their
English localization resource (En.rc):

LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT

SUBLANG_DEFAULT is 1, which for English, maps to SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US. This means
that the localization in En.rc is *only* selected in an en_US locale, *not* in,
say, an en_GB locale (unless no other fallback is found).

It would probably better if these files said

LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL

so that if the user has a British English user locale (from LC_MESSAGES) and a
French system locale, winecfg will show up in English, not fall back to French.

(From Debian bug #504992, linked to in the URL field.)