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This confuses choosing a more phonetic option among multiple competing options with changing to a completely different language.

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"Multiple competing options" ignores that there's a prevalent style already.

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/840#issuecomment...

Consistency has more value than the subjective advantage of the proposal that you're comparing to the objective advantage of being phonetic. I think the prettier maintainers made the right choice.

There are multiple prevalent styles. The emoji counts on the issue thread you linked to and the number of essentially duplicates make that very clear.

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