Loïc Minier wrote: > There are two style problems here; the first disturbance I had was > about "Lecture impossible de foo" which could IMO be reworded as > "Lecture de foo impossible", but I then realized that I was also > disturbed because the message was new to me despite being a common > problem in other programs: > bee% cat foo > cat: foo: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > > bee% ls foo > ls: foo: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > > bee% dd if=foo > dd: ouverture de `foo': Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > > I don't know whether there are some central cross-programs conventions > to unite this. I'm Cc:ing the Last-Translator in case
You seem to be objecting to ikiwiki saying, in English, "cannot read foo: <error>" rather than "foo: <error>"? There's no such consistency amoung program error messages: sed: can't read foo: No such file or directory awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: cannot open file `foo' for reading (No such file or directory) Can't open perl script "foo": No such file or directory dd: opening `foo': No such file or directory python: can't open file 'foo': [Errno 2] No such file or directory ruby: No such file or directory -- foo (LoadError) w3m: Can't load foo. -- see shy jo
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