[drupal-devel] Default spelling.
Hi, I have been doing a little development for an American client, and it occurred to me that I didn't really know what language the default English is. When developing modules which English should be used. American or British (New Zealand/Australian). eg, colour vs. color, initialise vs. initialize I know that it can be translated, but it will be a pain if some modules used colour and others used color. Thanks in advance. Gordon.
When developing modules which English should be used. American or British (New Zealand/Australian).
eg, colour vs. color, initialise vs. initialize
If it's an American client, he's going to expect color, initialize, and publicly (though, personally, I've switched to "publically" since it just makes more sense - see http://miscoranda.com/138). -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
I have been doing a little development for an American client, and it occurred to me that I didn't really know what language the default English is.
When developing modules which English should be used. American or British (New Zealand/Australian).
eg, colour vs. color, initialise vs. initialize
I know that it can be translated, but it will be a pain if some modules used colour and others used color.
I don't think Drupal is clearly en_US or en_GB, it is probably a mixture of both. But you can run a spell checker, as people have done before with strictly US and GB vocabularies, and see the results. Goba
participants (3)
-
Gabor Hojtsy -
Gordon Heydon -
Morbus Iff