On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 00:19 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:41 +0100, Christian Rose wrote: > <snip> > > ¹ Perhaps Nautilus should be spelt uppercase in the message. > > ² I think "behavior" should be spelled without the "u" with American > > English spelling, and Merriam-Webster seems to support that theory > > (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=behavior). And > > source messages should use American English spellings according to the > > GNU/GNOME standards. > > Urgh. > > Allow me to reply to the footnotes (once in a while, it's interesting). > > There's nothing in the GNU/GNOME standards (if such a thing exists) > saying which language should be used as the base ("C") language for > programs. Sorry, Bastien, you are incorrect. The GNOME Documentation Style Guide, which has existed since 1999, says to use "standard American English spelling rules." If I remember correctly, the C locale is synonymous with US-ASCII, too.
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