Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:02:24 -0400 |
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On Friday 08 August 2003 13:34, Alan Cox wrote: >On Gwe, 2003-08-08 at 18:03, Jasper Spaans wrote: >> > What about the scenario where both spellings are used in a >> > header someplace that winds up being a systemwide reference? I >> > don't know that it has been, but such a 'correction' has the >> > potential to take us back to square one and 1993. I have had >> > recurring daytime nightmares of such possibilities since this >> > subject came up the first time a week or so ago. >> >> Wow. My FUD-o-meter just went berserk. > >Well we expose both Color and Colour in various application level >interfaces. As far as I am concerned English<->English changes are > just noise. Fixing real typos can be a big help especially to non > first language speakers who are wondering just wtf that word is..
As I relied to Jasper privately, the chances are slim but not non-existant. However I also commented that a spell checker able to note that there is only one or two characters difference in the words being compared, or only the order had been changed, would be a huge help in running down typo's.
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