Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 18:26:56 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@FreeBSD.org>, committers@FreeBSD.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English character variations Message-ID: <20000506182656.A98137@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <39140BE9.2BBB56B2@originative.co.uk>; from paul@originative.co.uk on Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:11:21PM %2B0100 References: <20000504102932.8227C37B726@hub.freebsd.org> <vqcn1m53u2s.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000505114226.V1642@argon.blackdawn.com> <391360B6.419DCA@softweyr.com> <39140BE9.2BBB56B2@originative.co.uk>
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[ 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. 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
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