The differences between the UK and American varieties of English are not limited just to spelling and vocabulary.
Ariel Στις 10-09-2009, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 13:06 -0400, ο/η Aryeh Gregor έγραψε: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know why you're writing this nonsense, you obviously haven't > > looked at the code at all. > > This paragraph is unnecessary. > > > The language variant system that we have could easily convert between > > US and UK English. In fact it already does convert between a language > > pair with a far more complex relationship, that is Simplified and > > Traditional Chinese. > > > > The language conversion system is very simple, it's just a table of > > translated pairs, where the longest match takes precedence. The > > translation table in one direction (e.g. UK -> US) can be different to > > the table in the other direction (US -> UK). You would not list "ize > > -> ise", you would list every word in the dictionary with an -ize > > ending that can be translated to -ise without controversy. The current > > software could handle 50k pairs or so without serious performance > > problems, and it could be extended and optimised to allow millions of > > pairs if there was a need for that. > > > > It's possible to handle any pair of languages which are separated only > > by vocabulary, and transliteration or spelling. It's only differences > > in grammar, such as word order, that would give it trouble. > > Is there any reason nobody's tried adding such support for us/uk > English? It would resolve some long-standing tension on enwiki. > Would anons have to be given one variant or the other, or would they > get untransformed text or what? Does the variant transformation apply > to the edit page as well? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
