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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@generationjava.com>
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names?
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Have done.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Gary Gregory wrote:

> May I suggest that we update the developer's guide to provide the US-English
> guideline?
>
> gg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bayard@generationjava.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 16:50
> > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> > Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names?
> >
> >
> > The difficulty comes in what you define the project as. If it's Lang, then
> > we generally don't care. If it's Jakarta, then I suspect there's a strong
> > enough pro-US vote.
> >
> > As none of the non-US-english writing people so far have really cared,
> > I'll go ahead and commit a change. Deprecating the old spelling and
> > introducing the new spelling.
> >
> > Hen
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Brett Porter wrote:
> >
> > > There has just been a debate on the Linux Kernel mailing list about this
> > -
> > > actually a lot of that code is in British English.
> > >
> > > I say it should be whatever the majority of developers are comfortable
> > with
> > > and it must be consistent across the project. Everyone else can press
> > > Ctrl-space in their IDE :) US English sounds fine in general - the rest
> > of
> > > the world is usually aware of how the spellings differ (although the
> > reverse
> > > is not always the case :)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Brett
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Simon Kitching [mailto:simon@ecnetwork.co.nz]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2003 9:30 AM
> > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> > > > Subject: Re: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > As a user of, rather than contributor to, lang, I agree with Stephen.
> > > >
> > > > While also a "Queen's English" user, the convention for
> > > > programming libraries is clearly established as US English.
> > > > All the java standard libraries use this convention, so it
> > > > seems inconsistent to use other spelling elsewhere. I bet C++
> > > > libraries, Gnome libraries, etc. also use US English
> > > > spellings for public methods.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Simon
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:23, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> > > > > Although I am English and use the correct English spelling, I would
> > > > > probably prefer these to be spelt as US english.
> > > > >
> > > > > Why? Well practically all computer driven spelling is US, eg.
> > > > > capitalize (US English) not capitalise (correct English) color (US
> > > > > English) not colour (correct English)
> > > > >
> > > > > If we are to change them, then this is the time. The [lang] 2.0
> > > > > release is the tidy up release involving deprecations. I
> > > > don't expect
> > > > > or want further deprecations in 3.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > Having said that, I can't work up the will to actually make the
> > > > > change. So
> > > > > +1 if someone wants to make the effort and supply a patch.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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