* Re: Documenting a preference for US English?
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
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2017-10-13 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Phil Sainty; +Cc: Eli Zaretskii, emacs-devel
On 2017-10-12, at 23:24, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> I've also now found the following discussion from 2008 regarding the
> existing instances of UK English:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01848.html
How about this?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-06/msg00451.html
;-)
Best,
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* Re: Documenting a preference for US English?
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
2017-10-13 6:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-10-13 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2017-10-13 5:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Phil Sainty, emacs-devel; +Cc: Eli Zaretskii
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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: 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
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* Re: Documenting a preference for US English?
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
@ 2017-10-13 6:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-10-13 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen @ 2017-10-13 6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Phil Sainty; +Cc: emacs-devel
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() Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
() Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300
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.
Not in the proper docs, but an anchor for them (eventually):
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=78479a398
Thanks for prompting.
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* Re: Documenting a preference for US English?
2017-10-12 21:24 ` Documenting a preference for US English? Phil Sainty
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2017-10-13 8:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Phil Sainty; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> There is, however, the following example in lisp/textmodes/ispell.el:
>
> ;; Local Variables:
> ;; mode: emacs-lisp
> ;; comment-column: 40
> ;; ispell-check-comments: exclusive
> ;; ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
> ;; End:
>
> Perhaps the Emacs repository's .dir-locals.el entry for emacs-lisp-mode
> ought to include these ispell variables?
That could be problematic, since we have in the repository a small
amount of documents that are not written in US English (nor in English
in general). For example, the tutorials.
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