Why do Americans think that American English is English?

Hi, I've managed to change my basic English to British English (I am in Australia and it's the closest). Why does my iphone still think that British English spells organisation with a z?? This really annoys me, I'm not American and don't use American English.

I have no problem with that, I believe the closest to the original 18th Century English is in Nova Scotia which is close to 18th Century Cornish (I seem to remember). .
English has always changed rapidly, that is a strength of the Language, however that is not the issue here.
The issue is that in England, the English are referred to as English and sometimes as British but never as British-English. It does not seem unreasonable to be able to call your own language by its name withou an externally enforced label.
We don't distinguish French as spoken in France (as opposed to Canada or various African nations) be referring to it is "Francais Francais". It is just Francais because that is what they speak in France.

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V_DAYS NUMBER;
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    INTO V_DAYS
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--            NVL(SEGMENT5, 'تجاوز') Late_type,
--             SEGMENT1 NOTES,
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WHEN NVL(SEGMENT5,'تجاوز') not in ( 'تجاوز' ,'إجازة غير مدفوعة') and segment1 not in ('إجازة غير مدفوعة') THEN 0
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TRUNC(to_date(ACTUAL_TERMINATION_DATE,'DD/MM/RRRR'))- TO_DATE(to_date(SUBSTR(segment2, 1, 10),'DD/MM/YYYY'), 'DD/MM/RRRR')
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Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Afzal.

Dear All,
I found the solution for the above function.
In the same function I removed the static arabic values replacing with code values from the value set.
In my scenario there is a value set where some of these values exists, and other we can add there.
Kindly let me know if someone was successful by using the arabic text in the coding and defaulting the language in conc prog as English.
Thanks a lot.
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