From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:12:29 +0300 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214562433 27320 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2008 10:27:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 12:27:57 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 1KCBBL-00014k-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:27:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCBAT-0004HD-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCAwh-0001i9-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCAwa-0001gg-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51541 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCAwZ-0001gY-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:30392) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KCAwT-0006Xl-Kd; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:12:34 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.31.196]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K3400LCLAE90EU0@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:27:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:100022 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:05:50 +0200 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Glenn Morris" , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:56, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Agreed. I think we should make a point of accepting "any English". > > I think it is a good idea to standardize on one variant in public > interfaces (documentation, docstrings, etc.) Language variability is > beautiful, but it might look as sloppy editing in a document. I would even support requests to use US variants at the time patches are posted here, or otherwise discussed. But to go back several years and fix old log entries sounds way too far-fetched to me.