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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:47:33 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> The Burma / Myanmar renaming was understandable as a political statement
>> given the events that were happening at the time. But what exactly have
>> the British done to trigger this?
>>
>> Nothing _now_. Emacs used to use American spellings uniformly,
>> but inconsistencies have crept in over the years. It was just now
>> that we noticed them and Glenn volunteered to clean them up.
>
> My understanding has always been that American spellings should be used
> in documentation, but comments and ChangeLog entries do not require such
> exertion of effort on the part of native English speakers to
> deliberately misspell words in the American way.
What about i18n? Shouldn't commands that display documentation (like
`C-h f', `C-h v', ...) take into account the current locale and translate
default American spellings when the locale is `en_GB'? This should be much
easier to do than to translate documentation to other languages.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, (continued)
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Glenn Morris, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/27
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Miles Bader, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Jason Rumney, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/28
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Reiner Steib, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Sam Steingold, 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/06/29
- Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/30