Localisation is too hard for Gmail

Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by edent on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:40AM (#24847756)

I mean, it would be lovely if HTML (invented by a British English speaker) used en_GB throughout. I think it's only "dialogue" which is misspelled in HTML5. Although the obsolete "centre" element is also wrong ;-)

You might enjoy this article on if PHP were British. https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by rswail on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:35AM (#24848266)

Well I much prefer as an Australian to develop programs, not programmes. My analog to digital converters work just as well without vaguely French "ue" extensions.

Single items of information are still data, not datum.

Among many things in HTTP/HTML/etc that bug me is "referer".

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by tobr on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:49AM (#24848419)

> "referer"

At least that’s equally wrong for everyone.

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Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail by tomjakubowski on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:04PM (#24849797)

the webster in me thinks that's how the word ought to be spelled, maybe web developers will be the vanguard.

what's unfortunate is that http is self-consciously inconsistent about the spelling: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

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