On Tuesday 09 December 2014 22:15:42 Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Hi, > > Last May all the strings in the help text (wget --help) were modified > and thus *all* of the translations have been invalidated. (And no new > release nor POT file was announced to the TP.) Would it be an option > to undo those whitespace changes and thus automatically recover all of > those translations? > > If not, then please apply some of the upcoming patches. The first one > makes all option descriptions start with a lowercase letter, like most > of them already do. And it spell URL consistently in all uppercase. > > The second patch removes all of the full stops at the end of the option > descriptions. When a string of words does not start with a capital and > is not a complete sentence, it should not end with a period. > > The third patch changes the unrecommended backtick to a simple > single quote sign. (Just in the help text; it should really be done > in all strings.) > > When the plural of URL is URLs, then the plural of CA would have > to be CAs, not CA's, because the latter is a possessive. The fourth > patch corrects this. > > The fifth patch indents the continuation lines of long descriptions > with two spaces, like most other programs do too. By the way, the > whitespace change in May simply added four spaces everywhere in the > help text, but it did not rewrap the long lines. Shouldn't that be > done too, to make all lines fit again in 80 columns? > > Oh, there is an #ifdef __VMS around the "-K, --backup-converted", > but for my life I cannot see a difference between the then and the > else.
Thanks a lot, Benno. All 5 patches make sense to me. > When things have settled down, please announce a new release > to the TP too. @Giuseppe: You know how to do that !? I don't. Tim
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