From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Documenting a preference for US =?UTF-8?Q?English=3F?= Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300 Message-ID: References: <08c3b161-174d-1fb7-5df4-bbf7f7d47ee9@orcon.net.nz> <83val1xk58.fsf@gnu.org> <1f3ce5dd-e8b0-6aee-1614-bbe0200baa95@orcon.net.nz> <83y3ox99yb.fsf@gnu.org> <33aed754-b4cf-a75d-837d-14ee596613b1@orcon.net.nz> <83r2ucqqu6.fsf@gnu.org> <8360bnqiy2.fsf@gnu.org> <3b8cac2b-4cd6-b0ef-e42a-01ef58975a01@orcon.net.nz> <838tggmv1s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507843483 26355 195.159.176.226 (12 Oct 2017 21:24:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:24:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: Eli Zaretskii To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 12 23:24:37 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e2ky0-0005JB-2u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:24:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2ky5-0002xS-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2kxw-0002wo-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2kxs-00078J-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-2.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.43]:53482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2kxs-00077O-GK; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:24:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=45520 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-2.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e2kxl-0002iX-Ak; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:21 +1300 Original-Received: from wlgwil-nat-office.catalyst.net.nz ([202.78.240.7]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300 In-Reply-To: <838tggmv1s.fsf@gnu.org> X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_bar: -- X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 60.234.4.43 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219433 Archived-At: On 2017-10-13 01:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Thanks, this is fine with me, but please in the future use the US > English spelling of words such as "behavior". Sure, I'll attempt to keep this in mind in future. I spotted that I had both spellings of that word (I'd copied the US spelling from your suggestion, but typed the UK spelling elsewhere), and I then spent some time trying to establish whether US spelling was preferred, but (a) I didn't find anything in the documentation, and (b) I found other pre-existing instances of UK English elsewhere, so I ended up changing them to the UK spelling for internal consistency with the rest of the documentation I'd written (on the assumption that there may have been other such words as well -- UK spelling is never going to jump out at me as wrong, so I won't necessarily realise if a given word has a different spelling in US English in the first place). 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 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. I had grepped for "english" and then for "american" and "US" within those results, and didn't turn up any instructions to this end. 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? -Phil