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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 Americ
by drwoland 2y ago
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.
- drwoland 2y agoTo 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.
- rikroots 2y agoI've been dodging requests to "fix" British date formats in published articles to meet US reader expectations for a while now ...