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From: kathy@rbdc (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: American to English spelling
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.223747.3410@rbdc>
Date: 14 Nov 90 22:37:47 GMT
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Organization: Red Barn Data Center Public Access Unix, Winston-Salem, NC.
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tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:

>Does anybody have an editor script to convert American spelling
>(localize, color) to English spelling (localise, colour)?  I'd use
>the term British instead of English, except that English spelling
>is also the norm in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

I don't know about an editor script, but the UNIX "spell" utility
has a -b option (that's "b" for British).  If you're concerned with
locating words that need to be changed, that should help.  (I haven't
tried the particular word, but I imagine it would tell you to switch
"jail" to "gaol," too, as someone was wondering about.  :-)  )
You could then use those words to make a "vi" shell script that
globally searches and replaces -- but allows you to yea or nay each
occurrance (the "c" option at the end of the "s"ubstitute command).
Making blanket global changes might be a bit risky ...

Kathy Vincent