Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?

[Juri Linkov]

>>     The Burma / Myanmar renaming was understandable as a political statement
>>     given the events that were happening at the time. But what exactly have
>>     the British done to trigger this?
>> 
>> Nothing _now_.  Emacs used to use American spellings uniformly,
>> but inconsistencies have crept in over the years.  It was just now
>> that we noticed them and Glenn volunteered to clean them up.
>
> My understanding has always been that American spellings should be used
> in documentation, but comments and ChangeLog entries do not require such
> exertion of effort on the part of native English speakers to
> deliberately misspell words in the American way.

What about i18n?  Shouldn't commands that display documentation (like
`C-h f', `C-h v', ...) take into account the current locale and translate
default American spellings when the locale is `en_GB'?  This should be much
easier to do than to translate documentation to other languages.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/