From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 7 3:13:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from neodymium.btinternet.com (neodymium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559EA37B98D; Sun, 7 May 2000 03:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.162.208] (helo=parish.my.domain) by gadolinium with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12oDRF-0003g8-00; Sat, 6 May 2000 23:52:45 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00350; Sat, 6 May 2000 23:53:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 23:53:33 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: Paul Richards , Wes Peters , Will Andrews , Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , Jeffrey Hsu , committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English character variations Message-ID: <20000506235333.A233@parish> References: <20000504102932.8227C37B726@hub.freebsd.org> <20000505114226.V1642@argon.blackdawn.com> <391360B6.419DCA@softweyr.com> <39140BE9.2BBB56B2@originative.co.uk> <20000506182656.A98137@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000506182656.A98137@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 06:26:56PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 06:26:56PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > [ FU to -doc ] > > On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:11:21PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > Plus, this way we could load a fontset that has an "o" character for > > > Canadian and American English and an "ou" character for UK and Aussie > > > English and finally! use a consistent "flavour" of the word "color" in > > > our documentation. > > > > We could do that in the SGML anyway, create an entity that was &ou; and > > depending on the language mapping produce a "o" or a "ou", I guess you > > could create &sz; as well and use it similarly. > > NO. > > [ OK, I know, you're joking, but there's a reason why the "English" docs > are in en_US.ISO_8859-1. If we started using British spellings, those > docs would go in en_GB.ISO_8859-1. . . ] > > How inconsistent are we? A grep for "colour" in the Handbook shows no > matches, and one for "flavour" shows one match. > Are you going to submit a PR and patch Nik, or shall I? > N > -- > Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. > Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, > hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. > Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. > -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message