I use en-CA because it makes the most sense for me.<p>- I want spellcheckers to default to American (analyze vs analyse, etc.) because that's the default in computer science. This, despite en-IN using British conventions.<p>- Metric units<p>- A4, etc. paper sizes are the default in India<p>- Acceptable date format (anything but MM/DD/YY will do)<p>- I definitely don't want my file explorer showing sizes in lakhs and crores (the commas in Indian numbers) so en-IN is out.<p>I speak Kannada, but I don't think anyone who can speak English here will confuse Canada for Kannada, whether they are Kannadigas or not.
This is almost certainly wrong but is worth a mention given that the author can't figure it out. In Southern India, there is a language known as Kannada. It has 43 million speakers, which, fun trivia, is more than the population of Canada (38 million). While "Kannada" and "Canada" are pronounced differently, I wonder whether there could be some clicks from Kannada speakers who think they are selecting the local English dialect. The English 'k' and 'c' sounds are so close together that perhaps Kannada speakers with weak English are trying to sound it out? Would be curious to hear someone from India chime in.
Canadian English has a bunch of britishisms and spellings that are artifacts (artefacts?) of its more recent history as a commonwealth dominion and probably French influence. Colour, neighbour, centre, defence, etc. Our ESL teachers are popular internationally because of our relatively "neutral" accent as well, and a reputation for a level of general agreeableness that aligns with some of the traditions of some other cultures. Maybe it's just the first alphabetical one on the list, but these are other factors. This article is about the locale for text, so maybe it's not a spoken English thing.<p>However, I could see why someone would want to avoid acquiring a southern accent if they weren't from there, or moreso, that rising terminal of the US west coast. (I suspect people in CA tech companies would be a bit less sensitive about others over explaining things to them if they realized that to anyone east of the Sierra Nevada, most of what they they say sounds like a question.)
In the 2006 War in Lebanon, the Canadian Embassy in Riyadh was shocked to find out that there were 10x as many Canadians in Lebanon than expected. Indians leave India, get Canadian residency, (maybe) live as NRI's and then return. That's why there are so many Canadians in India.
The whole idea of location being tied to the language, date formats and measurement units for software UI will makes less and less sense as time goes on.<p>It already makes absolutely no sense for many of us.
When I traveled with a Canadian colleague to Hyderabad, someone described how few catholics there were in India. He was startled, replying that this was the population of Canada.<p>I was on Lariam as an anti-malarial. He and others could clearly tell which day of the week I took my dose. It was since taken off the market for provoking psychosis. Asked if Lariam made me crazy, he famously replied "Not sure, but it certainly made him more Dave!"
> en-CA is alphabetically before en-GB.<p>Good guess and you're probably right, but this is as good as any time to bring up Indian '<i>immigration</i>' to Canada.<p>___________<p>A huge number of Indians give up their Indian citizenship to become Canadian citizens while continuing to stay in India (Overseas citizens of India).<p>It is particularly popular among rich business-people in the country, who want a convenient passport for travel that is easy to obtain and low maintenance. Of English speaking nations, getting citizenship to EU nations was always difficult and the US-IRS chases you down no matter what country you are in. Australia and Canada are wonderful 2nd choices, with Canada making it even easier to live in the US.<p>I am always surprised at how many of my rich friends whose entire wealth contained within India, are not Indian citizens.
You don't need to be Indian to hate translated software btw.<p>Esp when you have habits that aren't covered by any "by the book" localization. For example, I'm too used to using a decimal point, but my (RO) locale wants to use a comma.<p>Thus, all my machines are set to English.
I explicitly set my locale to EN_US everywhere. EN_IN has this really irritating numbering system (lakh, crores) that is not useful outside of my accounting system.
Each year there are almost 10x as many Indians migrating to Canada as there are Americans:<p><a href="https://www.immigration.ca/where-will-canadas-401000-immigrants-come-from-in-2021" rel="nofollow">https://www.immigration.ca/where-will-canadas-401000-immigra...</a><p>Despite being a country of European heritage, there is no European country in the top 10 for migration into Canada. Most of the migration source countries are places where labour is cheap and working conditions are poor. If your objective is to increase population, increase 'diversity', and depress labour conditions, then Canada's immigration settings are suitable.
There is a huge Indian diaspora in Canada obviously.<p>1m+ citizens, and few times more of that of PRs, and frequent visitors.<p>No wonder many of the go back, and forth for seasonal work.