Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > >> 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"). > > Even for error messages?
Why not? I've never heard of any orthography exception for error messages. (Until now for English. :-) > >> 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. > > Referring to error and usage messages, the last paragraphs of: > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html Thanks for the pointer. Still feels like a strange advise, even in English (for me as someone with German as mother tongue). No reasoning given there either. 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
