37923 - E-mail needs to be Email

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

in:
/include/allxpstr.h

there seems to be hardcodet some strings (fx line 2009) that contains the word 
"E-mail". I think that the general term used in Mozilla is "Email" in in the 
start of a sentence or just "email" if in the middle of a sentence.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

In that case, what needs to happen is for the hardcoded strings to be made 
localizable -- in French, email means what the english word enamel means,
so e-mail should be the term throughout Mozilla's French version. 

Agree with standardizing on email for the base English product, though.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I was under the impression that "e-mail" was better in English/American as 
well.  Word 2000's spell checher and thesaurus seems to like "email" and "e-
mail" equally well, but Webster tells me only "e-mail" is correct:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=e-mail&book=Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=email&book=Dictionary

Comment 3

[Norris Boyd]

allxpstr.h isn't used in mozilla. It's a remnant from Mozilla Classic/4.x.

In fact, I believe the entire mozilla/include directory is unused. I've filed 
bug 38061 about this.

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

Verified.