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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:23:58 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Committer's guide policy on commit message contents
Message-ID:  <20011129232358.A4707@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011129104810.A74413@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:48:10AM %2B1030
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>

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:48:10AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> FWIW, this is the kind of change which shouldn't happen.
> "rationalise" is a perfectly valid spelling.  Just because the
> Americans prefer "rationalize" is not a reason to change it, any more
> than there would be a reason for an Australian to change it back
> again.

Oh dear God.  Not this again.

The Documentation Project tries to produce professional documentation.
A part of that professionalism entails using consistent spelling, not
only between different documents, but (in some cases in the past) the
same document.

In order to do this, it was decided to standardise on American spelling.

Anyone with the time and energy is more than welcome to start a "Queen's
English" translation that puts docs under en_GB.ISO8859-1 instead of
en_US.

I've just committed the gist of this to the primer.

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FreeBSD: The Power to Serve             http://www.freebsd.org/
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