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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:52:28 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Committer's guide policy on commit message contents
Message-ID:  <20011129095228.A65873@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011129123309.C19084@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:33:09PM %2B0000
References:  <20011127163513.A12400@espresso.q9media.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011127163632.20120A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20011128014533.GA14146@hades.hell.gr> <20011129104810.A74413@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011129002138.GA41626@hades.hell.gr> <20011128214501.D15672@espresso.q9media.com> <20011129123309.C19084@tao.org.uk>

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:33:09PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > I suggest we choose the British variants then.  Does that seem like a
> > silly thing to say?  Indeed it does.
> 
> Yay!

Before I started actively submitting to the FAQ and Handbook, I sat
down and read them both.  The random whiplash between British and US
spellings is actively painful to anyone with any literary sensibility.
It's painful enough that, as a native American speaker, I don't care
if the docs are in British.  I don't care if some entire docs are in
British and some entire docs are in American -- it would be simple
enough to add a custom DocBook tag to the opening of each document to
say, i.e., <language_variant="british">.  I don't care if the docs all
follow Mark Twain's famous "how to simplify English spelling" essay.
Just pick something, pick anything, and stick to it in each individual
document.

The British spellings would present a certain level of, shall we say,
"class."  Our docproj lead is from Britain.  And an ispell dictionary
is available.  I don't see any reason why not.

(Of course, this has been a contentious issue for years, and I don't
expect it to actually change.)

==ml

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Michael Lucas
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