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Re: Fix typo on locale explanation of uclibc.


Michael, GeunSik, All,

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 08:45:03 Michael Abbott wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, GeunSik Lim wrote:
> > This is trivial patch based on crosstool-ng 1.6.0.
> > Please, Fix typo on locale explanation of uclibc.
> [...]
> > -      Say y if you want uClibc to support localisation.
> > +      Say y if you want uClibc to support localization.
> 
> Seriously?  Did you try looking up "localisation" first?
> 
> The original is correctly spelt.  There's a nice article on the topic 
> here:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize

Hey! This is nice! Thanks for the pointer! I've always been in need of
something like that to point my co-workers to. :-)

> As far as I can tell locale is not of greek origin so the classical 
> argument for -zie (which seems archaic to me) doesn't hold.

Fully agreed.

<troll>
I do speak/write English as I was taught, that is British English,
from England, not its _derivative_ American English. :-]
</troll>

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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