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Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:10:49 +0300

> From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:20:24 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
>     The Burma / Myanmar renaming was understandable as a political statement
>     given the events that were happening at the time. But what exactly have
>     the British done to trigger this?
> 
> Nothing _now_.  Emacs used to use American spellings uniformly,
> but inconsistencies have crept in over the years.  It was just now
> that we noticed them and Glenn volunteered to clean them up.

Inconsistencies in spelling in Emacs manuals and doc strings, i.e. in
text presented to the user, should indeed be fixed.  But fixing
inconsistencies in old ChangeLog entries is IMO a waste of Glenn's
time and energy.




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