[Localization] British vs American English usages in code #14962

issue ch4ot1c opened this issue on December 14, 2018
  1. ch4ot1c commented at 8:04 PM on December 14, 2018: contributor

    I notice that color vs colour, and usable vs useable both appear in the codebase. Most instances use the American English spelling.

    However, RPC prioritisetransaction uses the British English spelling of prioritise.

    Do we prefer one or the other? This could be included in the Developer Notes.

    I would favor color and usable, and American English in general.

    Source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/prioritise

  2. fanquake added the label Docs on Dec 14, 2018
  3. pstratem commented at 8:01 PM on December 15, 2018: contributor

    Think we should standardise on en_AU cause Satoshi was clearly Australian.

  4. MarcoFalke added the label Brainstorming on Dec 16, 2018
  5. MarcoFalke commented at 5:38 PM on December 16, 2018: member

    For code comments we accept any dialect as long as it can be understood by a non-native English speaker. It would be nice to normalize user-facing documentation and interfaces. Though, I can't see how this is enforceable, considering that most reviewers are non-native speakers.

  6. jnewbery commented at 12:46 AM on December 17, 2018: member

    I think this is a non-issue. Contributors should be free to chose whichever variety of English they prefer, so long as it's clear and comprehensible to others.

    I choose to make my contributions in American English as I suppose that's more familiar to most readers, but I wouldn't want to impose my color of paint on other contributors.

  7. ch4ot1c commented at 1:59 PM on December 17, 2018: contributor

    Ack!

  8. fanquake commented at 6:52 AM on December 27, 2018: member

    Agree that this is a non-issue. Contributions will likely continue in American/Australia/British english etc.

  9. fanquake closed this on Dec 27, 2018

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