Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-09-03 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* GOTO Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-09-01 01:30]: At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:26:28 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Frankly, I am getting tired of discussing this issue. I can't understand why you, gotom, are that stubborn and can't respect a decision taken by the German translation team. You already stated at the very beginning of this bug report, that you find it not well inspected [6]... To me your

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
At some point, gotom needs to either accept that the German team has *done* the deep thinking, or else do it himself. So far he declared it a wishlist item (AFAICT) and refused to either think about it *or* take the German team's word for it. Well, maybebut being rude in words towards

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-09-01 Thread Jens Nachtigall
Frankly, I am getting tired of discussing this issue. I can't understand why you, gotom, are that stubborn and can't respect a decision taken by the German translation team. You already stated at the very beginning of this bug report, that you find it not well inspected [6]... To me

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, the release notes need to contain a note to users using the german locale along the lines: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a UTF-8 based locale will avoid the problem. Um, why

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:26:28 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: The Debian Project apologies for the unfortunate german quoting on the command line interface. A solution is worked on, but unfortunately hasn't made it into Sarge. As a workaround, switching to a UTF-8 based locale will avoid the

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Jens Nachtigall
It's not good idea to enforce your opinion to the release announcements because even some German guys do not think it's acceptable currently. Can you give some pointers to this? If you follow the long bug report [1], you'll see that there is agreement that the current ,, quoting is by far

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jens Nachtigall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you give some pointers to this? If you follow the long bug report [1], you'll see that there is agreement that the current ,, quoting is by far the worst transliteration. 2 opinions stated that the transliteration towards »« might be

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Barbier) writes: AFAICT only Unicode transliteration was added to libc locales at first place, then some people requested locale additions. A bug has been filed on 2004-03-03 to request additions to German locales, but Ulrich Drepper did not comment on it yet.

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Denis Barbier
[debian-release removed from Cc] On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:26:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Jens Nachtigall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you give some pointers to this? If you follow the long bug report [1], you'll see that there is agreement that the current ,, quoting is

Bug#235759: Apology to german users required in the release notes

2004-08-31 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Denis Barbier wrote: [snip] I don't think anyone has said that the commas thing is acceptible. The person you are responding to didn't say it was. Thiemo Seufer did, that's why GOTO Masanori tells that there is no consensus: http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2004/07/msg00370.html ]