From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 29 8:47:33 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5738837B440 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 29452 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 16:47:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 16:47:58 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011129114409.A66703@blackhelicopters.org> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:47:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Michael Lucas Subject: Re: Committer's guide policy on commit message contents Cc: Josef Karthauser , Mike Barcroft , Giorgos Keramidas , Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "Brian F. Feldman" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Nov-01 Michael Lucas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:39:03AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: >> Yes, and we can have en_GB (or en_BR or whatever it's called) if we wish to >> have the British version as well. > > Technically correct, but we have enough trouble getting translations > and writing docs. > > It's hideous to read, but it's better than saying "Oh, that document > is only available in Great Britain English!", or asking people to > maintain multiple translations of one document. As long as each document is self-consistent that is the main thing. Given a choice in a specific document, I would lean toward US spellings for en_US. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message