Re: Fix UK spelling in comments and ChangeLog entries?

[Jason Rumney]

Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     The Burma / Myanmar renaming was understandable as a political statement
>     given the events that were happening at the time. But what exactly have
>     the British done to trigger this?
> 
> Nothing _now_.  Emacs used to use American spellings uniformly,
> but inconsistencies have crept in over the years.  It was just now
> that we noticed them and Glenn volunteered to clean them up.
> 

My understanding has always been that American spellings should be used
in documentation, but comments and ChangeLog entries do not require such
exertion of effort on the part of native English speakers to
deliberately misspell words in the American way.