On Sun, Feb 04, 2007, Joey Hess 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: > 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)
Yes, however this was only a mild critic; "cannot read foo" is just less common, especially the literal french translation. Please note I also criticzed the exact wording of the french translation, this is why the french translator was in Cc:. -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
