Just curious. Are they absolutely identical or are there tweaks for keyboard setups, date representation, different word spellings (ie colour/color) and other stuff?
Last time I looked, you could change a copy of XP into being euro/kewi/Aussycentric/ by means of a few simple changes in the Config. menu, espec. the keyboard layout.
There’s certainly different language settings, keyboard options, etc. My full off-the-shelf UK copy installs with the UK keyboard as default, although a US one is also made available for no obvious reason. More importantly, date formats, currency units etc. are correct for the locality.
However, they only go so far - we still choose a ‘color scheme’, for example.
Oh, one other thing that I suspect is affected by the regional settings is how a dialup modem recognises a dial tone - I know that travelling abroad with a laptop, it’s often necessary to stop the system from listening for one before dialling, although this may be driver-specific.
How about “-ize” words? Do you get those instead of “-ise”?
Good question…I can’t think of an obvious place to look and see, other than Help files. However, spell-checkers and so on will be set to UK options.
Wouldn’t a UK keyboard be configured to have pounds and euro symbols rather than dollars?
There’s other differences as well, such as @ and " being interchanged.
That, and the “Break for Swift Half” key, which you won’t find over here.
Correct. And any ‘sleep’ function is ‘afternoon tea’.