Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor'

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 12:42:56 EST


On Gwe, 2003-08-08 at 18:03, Jasper Spaans wrote:
> > What about the scenario where both spellings are used in a header
> > someplace that winds up being a systemwide reference? I don't know
> > that it has been, but such a 'correction' has the potential to take
> > us back to square one and 1993. I have had recurring daytime
> > nightmares of such possibilities since this subject came up the first
> > time a week or so ago.
>
> Wow. My FUD-o-meter just went berserk.

Well we expose both Color and Colour in various application level
interfaces. As far as I am concerned English<->English changes are just
noise. Fixing real typos can be a big help especially to non first
language speakers who are wondering just wtf that word is..

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