Re: Same language, two locales

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 19:42:42 EDT


Well, this was one example among obviously thousands of differences between
the two. It is easy enough (in Word) to add the "z" version to a custom dir
once and never see it again....

michka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Vining" <al@heimdallr.u-net.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 2:18 PM
Subject: RE: Same language, two locales

> Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> >
> > Note that Word 2000 will let you tag text with different languages and
> > assuming you have the spellcheckers install from the proofing tools with
> > properly recognize internationalization/localization in US English text
> > and internationalisation/localisation in UK English text, as one would
> > hope
>
> Except that the Oxford dictionaries (and hence many UK users) have gone
over
> to -ize spellings, so you have to learn to ignore the false negatives and
> search for the false positives...
>
> Al.
>
>



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