From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: how to format an error?
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 08:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C5C0F2B.2050409@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020114102101.14027J-100000@is>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>
>> Given the attached, which is the correct way of formatting an error message:
>>
>> This is an error message.
>> this is an error message.
>> This is an error message
>> this is an error message
>
>
> I suggest the last variant. It goes with the GNU coding standards
> except for the capitalization. But capitalization is
> language-specific (e.g., in German, all nouns are capitalized), and it
> was recently discovered in Emacs development that a 100% adherence to
> the capitalization rule you cited produces wrong results in some
> cases. Most of the messages don't need caps, so I think losing that
> is the best alternative which is simple enough to adher to.
Wouldn't the gettext stuff let the german translator do this? The
translator certainly isn't required to follow the capitalization
convention used in the Australian English version.
Anyway, we agree on one thing - the trailing fullstop. I'll ARI that :-)
Andrew
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_15.html#SEC15
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_30.html#SEC30
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-02 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-13 20:36 Andrew Cagney
2002-01-14 0:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-14 2:37 ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-01-14 3:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-02 8:09 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2002-02-02 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-03 19:22 ` Andrew Cagney
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