From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:22:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <87r3p9fxm2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2v0fiji.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150619090225.GA2743@acm.fritz.box> <87fv5kfrfa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83twtzhi9g.fsf@gnu.org> <877fqvfvby.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fv5jh8ls.fsf@gnu.org> <874mlzf71d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <558945C2.2010203@yandex.ru> <55896723.7070500@yandex.ru> <5589ADD0.7000605@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435098200 9733 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2015 22:23:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, now@disu.se, stephen@xemacs.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 24 00:23:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7Wb1-0001uf-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7Wb0-0003qv-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7Wan-0003pS-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7Wam-0003tq-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WaY-0003aF-6v; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WaX-0004sO-1I; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:22:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <5589ADD0.7000605@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:04:48 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187456 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > FWIW, Emacs codebase leans toward American Engligh. And it's also the > dialect of English most prevalent in the world, for better or worse. US English is best to use in Emacs, for that reason. For consistency's sake, it would be cleaner to convert all British English to US English. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.