On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:28:57AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > 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.
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