Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > Some of the changes just insert a period at the end of error messages: > > > @@ -1054,7 +1043,7 @@ > > #: src/cmdline/cmdline_forget_new.cc:56 > > #, c-format > > msgid "E: The forget-new command takes no arguments\n" > > -msgstr "F: Der »forget-new«-Befehl akzeptiert keine Argumente\n" > > +msgstr "F: Der »forget-new«-Befehl akzeptiert keine Argumente.\n" > > > > #: src/cmdline/cmdline_forget_new.cc:83 > > #, c-format > > Is it common in your locale to have periods there?
Definitely. It's likely the reason why I would expect to have periods there in English, too. :-) > In english locale many programs intentionally do not have those, In German every complete sentence should end with a period (IIRC also called "full stop"). > and this is generally the case in aptitude. This is a > quasi-standard, and recommended by gnu coding standards. Huh? Couldn't find that. I looked at http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Doc-Strings-and-Manuals.html Looking at the examples at http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Internationalization.html I don't see a real rule when to end a string with or without a period. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
