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? J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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