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From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
To: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Specify UK English for the documentation source files.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:52:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130730155228.GB19369@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375197114-10742-1-git-send-email-marcnarc@xiplink.com>

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:11:54AM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
> 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@xiplink.com>
> ---
> 
> 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.
> 

Since the settings (for example color) use en_US, I suggest _not_ to
specify en_UK as documentation language. Either set en_US or rather
don't set anything at all but go after "google correct". That's the most
populair alternative. For example colour gets 422 000 000 hits and color
gets 2 260 000 000 hits. We should use color even if it's not en_UK.

It's a more pragmatic approach and most git users aren't native english
speakers anyway.

-- 
Med vänliga hälsningar
Fredrik Gustafsson

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e-post: iveqy@iveqy.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29 21:15 [PATCH] Documentation: fix typos in man pages Øystein Walle
2013-07-30 14:51 ` Marc Branchaud
2013-07-30 15:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-07-30 15:11   ` [PATCH] Specify UK English for the documentation source files Marc Branchaud
2013-07-30 15:52     ` Fredrik Gustafsson [this message]
2013-07-30 16:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-01 15:10     ` [PATCH v2] Provide some linguistic guidance for the documentation Marc Branchaud
2013-08-01 15:14       ` Marc Branchaud
2013-08-01 18:21       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-01 18:49         ` [PATCH v3] " Marc Branchaud
2013-08-02  6:25         ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-02 14:16           ` Marc Branchaud

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