Sean Middleditch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Just so there is no confusion, I am not suggesting that everyone in the world use American English for everything. American English should be used for the documentation in a Debian system and therefore the alias for English should be en_US. If Romeo and Juliet were turned a package, the text would of course be in en_GB, but /usr/share/doc/r&j/README.Debian and the man page ;-) would be in en_US. 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. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.