On 27-Sep 08:28, Bill Wohler wrote: > Sean Middleditch <elanthis@users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > > Why such emphasis? The idea is to spell words like "colour" instead of > > > "color", not to write the ls man page in iambic pentameter. > > No, the idea is to spell it "color," not "colour." > > The mass of writing in the computer world is American English, for > better or for worse, and having different spellings in a single > system is as distracting and unprofessional as misspelling the word > entirely. Now some don't think that misspelled words are a big deal, > but these are not enlightened people. American English is no better (or worse) the British English. Even a mix is better then no documentation at all. In the whole debate, I think the real problem is that locale hasn't been configured correctly yet. "English" should alias to en_US here in the US, and en_GB in England. If really don't like your man pages in en_GB then _you_ should "translate" it to en_US. I just don't care. Unix in general has trouble with locales; there seems to be at least two wheels for this problem and they are traveling to different directions. (locale from glibc and the alias from Xfree; are there any others?) [snip] > If a multi-billion dollar company whose employees have all learned > British English decide that their documentation should be in > American English, that's saying something. This just shows that they know where they sell most of their software, it doesn't mean that "American English" is any more useful. Just my $0.02, Thomas
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