Hi John.
Currently, our standards don't have any policy for spelling,
neither in documentation, nor in user visible strings.
I see all sorts of different spellings of common words used
throughout GNU - sometimes the same word is spelt differently
in different instances within the same project.
The most common examples are -ise vs. -ize endings. Also
american vs. british orthography of words such as behavio(u)r
and colo(u)r.
Quite apart from appearing inconsistent, this makes it hard
when grepping through documentation/code for particular
things.
Obviously translators are free to use whatever conventions
they think appropriate for their locale, but should we have
a style guide to be followed when programs are run in the C
locale?
What do you think?
My opinion is... that I don't have a strong preference on it.
Sorry it's not very useful, but I thought it is still better than
crickets... :)
