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 We believe Ghostty is one of the most compliant terminal emulators available.
 
-Terminal behavior is partially a dejour standard
+Terminal behavior is partially a de jure standard
 (i.e. [ECMA-48](https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-48/))
-but mostly a defacto standard as defined by popular terminal emulators
+but mostly a de facto standard as defined by popular terminal emulators
 worldwide. Ghostty takes the approach that our behavior is defined by
 (1) standards, if available, (2) xterm, if the feature exists, (3)
 other popular terminals, in that order. This defines what the Ghostty project