Re: request for string addition



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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