On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Jordan Reiter wrote:
> No. Unlike human beings, computers are completely incapable of seeing
> "organization" as equivalent to "organisation", and while a computer
> *could* be made to recognize both instances as corresponding to a general
> category, that would be far more complicated than simply standardizing the
> use.
Hey, it's not that difficult .. you already probably recognize
"organization" as equivalent to "Organization". We should
recommend a particular spelling, but if some data is going to be typed by
people with no immediate validation, the software should be as flexible as
possible. "organization" just looks plain wrong to some people (though I
guess we've all long since abandoned "programme" for software and had to
come to terms with "color" in many apps.).
I'm probably going to equivalence "description" to "DC.description", for
instance ...
Andrew
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