From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:47:33 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877ic944ga.fsf@jurta.org> References: <48653F58.9070608@gnu.org> <4866AADE.60006@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214689737 17522 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2008 21:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 28 23:49:42 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 1KCiIf-0007kU-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCiHp-0003Cg-GJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCiHl-0003Ab-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCiHj-00039m-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37338 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCiHj-00039j-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:64267) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCiHa-0003EY-2m; Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KCiHX-000NBM-UE; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:48:32 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4866AADE.60006@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:19:26 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 068dd79c68aafbc760c35e97c5d420ed X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4129 [June 26 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:100103 Archived-At: >> 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/