From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30376 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2002 16:09:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30333 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2002 16:09:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2002 16:09:52 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BA03C66; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 11:09:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5C0F2B.2050409@cygnus.com> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 08:09:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: how to format an error? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 > 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