From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 8 9:56:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4339C37B923; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18205; Mon, 8 May 2000 10:56:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39160758.61053DA@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:16:24 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: Paul Richards , committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English character variations References: <20000504102932.8227C37B726@hub.freebsd.org> <20000505114226.V1642@argon.blackdawn.com> <391360B6.419DCA@softweyr.com> <39140BE9.2BBB56B2@originative.co.uk> <20000506182656.A98137@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nik Clayton wrote: > > [ FU to -doc ] > > On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:11:21PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > Plus, this way we could load a fontset that has an "o" character for > > > Canadian and American English and an "ou" character for UK and Aussie > > > English and finally! use a consistent "flavour" of the word "color" in > > > our documentation. > > > > We could do that in the SGML anyway, create an entity that was &ou; and > > depending on the language mapping produce a "o" or a "ou", I guess you > > could create &sz; as well and use it similarly. > > NO. > > [ OK, I know, you're joking, but there's a reason why the "English" docs > are in en_US.ISO_8859-1. If we started using British spellings, those > docs would go in en_GB.ISO_8859-1. . . ] > > How inconsistent are we? A grep for "colour" in the Handbook shows no > matches, and one for "flavour" shows one match. Calm, Nik, calm. I was just poking fun at the Brits (and Aussies). Paul was pushing the joke back at me, I suppose. "You guys sure talk funny, can't you speak English?" ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message