From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:19:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4866AADE.60006@gnu.org> References: <48653F58.9070608@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214688028 13056 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2008 21:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 23:21:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KChr0-0001Lt-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:21:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KChqA-00073B-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KChq6-00071r-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KChq4-0006zN-R6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59345 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KChq4-0006z6-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]:51397) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KChpt-0000VP-6C; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:19:57 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhAFAEBvV0hTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBW60p X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,720,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="137976581" X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 28 Jun 2008 22:19:51 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6FC3FD; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:21:04 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100101 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman wrote: > 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.