Re: Documenting a preference for US English?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300
> From: Phil Sainty <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> 
> There is, however, the following example in lisp/textmodes/ispell.el:
> 
> ;; Local Variables:
> ;; mode: emacs-lisp
> ;; comment-column: 40
> ;; ispell-check-comments: exclusive
> ;; ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
> ;; End:
> 
> Perhaps the Emacs repository's .dir-locals.el entry for emacs-lisp-mode
> ought to include these ispell variables?

That could be problematic, since we have in the repository a small
amount of documents that are not written in US English (nor in English
in general).  For example, the tutorials.