From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>,
gdb@sources.redhat.com, Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Subject: Re: how to format an error?
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 03:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020114130329.15686A-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201141037.KAA23594@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> Hmm, I'd go for the third. If the message were to appear in a GUI box, it
> could well be a line of text on its own, such as
>
> ************* ERROR **************
> * *
> * This is an error message *
> * *
> **********************************
>
> In such a context I think it would be very wrong to start this with a
> lower-case letter.
It usually comes with something before it, like in
foobar: this is an error message
So I think the problem that bothers you mostly doesn't exist.
> Given that, (and that a litteral will never appear in the first letter)
> can we safely assume that we can capitalize the first letter during
> printing?
No. That's exactly what we discovered in Emacs: you cannot assume
anything about proper capitalization, unless you are certain the message
will always be in US English. Any assumption you make will break in too
many cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 11:08 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 [this message]
2002-02-02 8:09 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-02 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-03 19:22 ` Andrew Cagney
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