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British English

Most programs are written using American English spelling.  It is a simple
process to change the spelling to British English to satisfy the eye of English
speakers in Canada, Australia, South Africa and other commonwealth English
speaking countries.

References

These are useful references to the difference between the various English
spellings.

* http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm
* http://www.musicalenglishlessons.com/spelling-diffs.htm

Tools

To initialise all the POT files to be fully translated:

  for pot in `cd templates; find . -name "*.pot"`
  do 
    mkdir -p en_GB/`dirname $pot`
    msginit --locale=en_GB --no-translator -i templates/$pot -o en_GB/`dirname $pot`/`basename $pot .pot`.po
  done 

To examine all potential American spellings:

  pofilter -t stopwords en_GB en_GB-check

NOTE: currently stopwords is not in CVS.  Please double check on this.

This will extract words to en_GB that potentially have American spellings.
Correct them and then run:

  pomerge -i en_GB-check -o en_GB -t en_GB


CAUTION

This will not check for bad grammar, setence structure, humour, etc.  You need
a person to do that. But its a start.