> > Why should that be a concern? If someone is translating messages
> > to another language, converting punctuation is part of the chore.
>
On Thu, 30 Mar 100, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> The only concern that seems to be pertinent in this thread is that the trailing
> "." makes it inconvenient to select/paste from some messages. (otherwise,
> it is as you note - a concern of the translator - not a good reason for
> changing the English version of the messages).
If by "select/paste from some messages" you mean building up complete
messages from fragments like
+#define FIRST_SEGMENT gettext(" first")
#define GUESSING_SEGMENT gettext(", guessing...")
#define PERMISSIONS_SEGMENT gettext("Permissions for ")
#define SELECT_SEGMENT gettext("Select "),
that's horrible anyway. Having such fragments in the catalog rather
than full messages makes it impossible to make good translations
to languages where the word order should be different.
Klaus
