The point is -- depending on exactly what you're presenting and what's being presented, it has the potential to be misinterpreted, and then you run into both the recipient and the originator blaming each other.

You're very likely right.

The point I'm trying to make is that "English" no longer exists in a true form, if ever it did and that it would be impossible to translate US to UK english and cover all nuances on the way, so I felt it would be a pointless and expensive exercise to try and do so, unless of course there was a very specific reason for doing so.

In reply to Re^6: Perl to convert US to UK punctuation/spelling? by Gavin
in thread Perl to convert US to UK punctuation/spelling? by freewheel

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