On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 13:55 +0100, Martin Bagge wrote: > When performing a update for isight-firmware-tools po-debconf I noticed > the following: > > #. Type: text > #. Description > #: ../templates:4001 > msgid "Extract success. Enjoy iSigiht!." > msgstr "" > > AFAIK "!" should not be followed by a ".", if the "!" is part of a name > like Yahoo! I could consider it but not like in the sentence above.
It would normally be considered an indicator of poor grammar to use a full stop after either an exclamation mark or question mark. I'd agree that the few situations where the exclamation mark is part of a proper name are the only time it would be acceptable (and even then it would appear 'odd'). (Quite where a full stop must appear in relation to a parenthesis is a different question.) QED. BTW - isn't there a second typo in the msgid? iSigiht [sic] - probably iSight. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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