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Re: [COMMITED][BZ #16375] Fix spelling in manual
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 17:09:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: [COMMITED][BZ #16375] Fix spelling in manual
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Nix wrote:
I thought the rule was that both US and
non-US English variants are used depending on, uh, probably the variant
spoken by whoever submitted a given patch
It's more helpful to the reader if the manual is consistent.
In other GNU projects I've worked on,
we've stuck to the initial style, typically US English.