Re: [PATCH] Specify UK English for the documentation source files.

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Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This will hopefully avoid questions over which spelling and grammar should
> be used.  Translators are of course free to create localizations for other
> English dialects.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Although I'm Canadian I figured en_CA would be a little too parochial.  I
> don't have a strong preference for en_UK over en_US though.

If we were to specify one, I would have to say we should standardise
on en_US.  Like it or not, that is the lingua franca in the CS world
(I'd also admit that most of the extra 'u' in words like "behaviour"
are my typoes, not even coming from a conscious decision to choose
en_UK).

I'd appreciate "typofix" patches to address genuine typoes like
"s/filesytem/filesystem/" done separately, so that we do not even
have to get into language bikeshedding.  Even if we did decide to
stick to en_US, the typofix patches and en_US patches should be
separate to ease reviews.
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