US vs. British spelling

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 10 17:31:04 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:27 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> On 3/10/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:21 -0600, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> > > We have inconsistencies in spellings of words like color/colour,
> > > behavior/behaviour, etc.  I figure we should be consistent.  Should I correct
> > > to the American spelling or the British?
> >
> > We should use American spelling, so you should correct the British
> > stuff.
> >
> >M
> 
> Umm, why? Most of the world uses International/British spelling? My
> vote is for International.

It's a little late in the cycle to have a vote on this now, maybe we can
discuss changing for the next cycle, but for now it's American:

http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/styleguide/C/ch04s03.html

M
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