Re:BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
by drwoland on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:17AM
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As a programmer working in the UK I've never been asked to rewrite something into British English. I have been instructed to convert some old codebase to American spellings to "avoid confusion". Probably about 6 times in 20 years of professional programming and usually by some product manager based in San José following an acquisition. This is why the library exists I expect.
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Re:BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
by rikroots on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:17AM
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I've been dodging requests to "fix" British date formats in published articles to meet US reader expectations for a while now ...
Re:BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
by GJim on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:21AM
(#43126676)
Don't get me started on US calendars that have the weeks beginning on Sunday instead of Monday!
Re:BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
by Benanov on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:09AM
(#43128302)
YYYY-MM-DD should aggravate everyone equally, switch to that
Re:BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English
by drwoland on Friday February 21, 2025 @02:24AM
(#43124978)
To be clear, I don't think the library would actually be used to accomplish this task. Rather I suspect a tounge in cheek reaction to years of tedious spelling adjustment disguised as urgent feature requests.