[drupal-devel] Default spelling.

Gabor Hojtsy gabor at hojtsy.hu
Wed Oct 5 18:36:19 UTC 2005


> 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



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