Re: [Bug-gnubg] documentation: checker vs. chequer

[Joern Thyssen]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:08:21AM +0100, Ian Shaw wrote
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alef Rosenbaum
> > Sent: 14 June 2003 17:45
> > 
> > In the FAQ I've changed it all to "checker", but the menus and options
> > within gnubg itself will need changing.
> 
> Awk! Cough! Splutter! 

he he, I prefer chequer as well. 

> Is it only me trying to maintain my own rich cultural heritage and
> resist the creeping Americanisation of all life? One of the things I
> love about gnubg is the spelling of chequer. Mind you, since many of you
> aren't native English speakers, perhaps you don't care whether you are
> Americanised or Anglicized ;)

In fact, the program has been internationalised to US English. I'm not
sure this works on windows (yet), but under unix you can set LANG=en_GB
or LANG=en_US to get either language. I haven't checked recently that it
works, but the code for it is there.

Jørn