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UniStuttgart-VISUS / damast

Code for the DH project "Dhimmis & Muslims – Analysing Multireligious Spaces in the Medieval Muslim World" (VolkswagenFoundation)
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Decision: British or American English for texts in the codebase #62

Closed mfranke93 closed 2 years ago

mfranke93 commented 2 years ago

While work on #6 is ongoing, I keep noticing that @tutebatti is using British English (most noticable: "colour") when he rewrites text sections. I personally have no preference either way, but I think we should all decide on one variant and do that uniformly throughout all texts (not only the info texts).

My two cents: In visualization publications, American English is the norm. That is why the original texts were all spelled in the AE variant. While I am fine with going BE, I would insist on using the spelling "visualization" (as opposed to "visualisation"), as both are acceptable in BE, and using the spelling used in AE as well makes it easier for this project to be found in our domain, and more consistent.

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

AE is my preferred choice, too. I wrongly assumed that BE is the common variant for German publications in English for most people. I will gladly correct all texts to be in AE.

rpbarczok commented 2 years ago

AE is usually also my preferred choice, but as far as I remember, Dorothea prefers BE, at least in publications. We meet again of Wednesday, so I will out it on our TOP list.

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Alright, I will make the corrections in a separate branch.