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Besides code, the community often contributes and maintains other text in comments and other documents.  This document intends to describe how we provide optional versions of these documents for folks who prefer non-US English writing.

Good-faith efforts at contributing and modifying text by non-native speakers generally should not be vetoed.  Instead, native speakers are encouraged to thank them and simply make corrections.

Discussions of proper use of US English, and what choice of words are most effective can often be controversial.  If you think some words should be changed, first consider how important it is, then start a discussion before making changes.  Very few, if any, changes of this sort must be made before releasing.  It is generally better to publish it and get feedback from the wider community.

Text appears in many places:

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8) Text in the SDKs and Applications we release that show up in some GUIuser interface.
The proposal is:
1) Release package documents will be written in US English but try to

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