From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting a preference for US English?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:48:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <103499a2-6ec8-05f2-9a56-e63e2d1b58bc@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a633d011e2315d91860c98541a7cb51b@webmail.orcon.net.nz>
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Phil Sainty wrote:
> I had grepped for "english" and then for "american" and "US" within
> those results, and didn't turn up any instructions to this end.
$ grep -ri 'american spell' $(git ls-files)
ChangeLog.2: Rename using American spelling. Update all uses.
doc/lispref/ChangeLog.1: Prefer typical American spelling for "acknowledgment".
doc/misc/ChangeLog.1: Prefer typical American spelling for "acknowledgment".
lisp/ChangeLog.16: Prefer typical American spelling for "acknowledgment".
lisp/ChangeLog.16: Emacs uses American spelling.
lisp/gnus/ChangeLog.3: Use American spelling for 'normalize'
> Is there such a recommendation in the documentation that I missed,
> though? If not, it sounds like it would be a good thing to add
> somewhere.
Sure, why not? I installed the attached.
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From 53e95d01fd8865204fdedcf30f4629d1d0634129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:38:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTE: Suggest American English.
---
CONTRIBUTE | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index d01ac8b..78a2d51 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ them right the first time, so here are guidelines for formatting them:
sentences starting with a capital and ending with a period (except
the summary line should not end in a period). See
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Comments.html
- or run 'info "(standards)Comments"'.
+ or run 'info "(standards)Comments"'. American English is preferred
+ in Emacs.
They are preserved indefinitely, and have a reasonable chance of
being read in the future, so it's better that they have good
--
2.7.4
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2017-10-12 21:24 ` Documenting a preference for US English? Phil Sainty
2017-10-13 5:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-10-13 5:48 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-10-13 6:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-10-13 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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