Hello On 11 May 2012 18:57, Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> Is it common in your locale to have periods there? > > Definitely. It's likely the reason why I would expect to have periods there > in English, too. :-) > >> In english locale many programs intentionally do not have those, > > In German every complete sentence should end with a period (IIRC also > called "full stop"). >
Even for error messages? I just wonder what the average program does for those in German. >> and this is generally the case in aptitude. This is a >> quasi-standard, and recommended by gnu coding standards. > > Huh? Couldn't find that. I looked at > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Doc-Strings-and-Manuals.html > > Looking at the examples at > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Internationalization.html > I don't see a real rule when to end a string with or without a period. Referring to error and usage messages, the last paragraphs of: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html Though a recent change to aptitude's usage info on --help did the opposite -- oops! Now I see that Holger's patch also restores the usage text to the "suggested" format without periods :-) Bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org