Re: Consistency in "doing foo..." strings

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
Christian Perrier wrote: > So, well, the only language I'm sur eabout is French: no bloody space > before ellipsis. (« Il n'y a pas d'espace avant les points de > suspension, mais il y en a une après. » in German, it's wrong as well as defined by Duden (the 'legally' authoritative source for Germa

Re: Consistency in "doing foo..." strings

2008-03-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > (if I'm correct, having a space before a sentence dot or an ellipsis > is wrong for all languages. So, indeed, if there are some in PO file, > this is likely to be a mistake by the translator) I'm not necessarily correct. Even in English, the questi

[D-I] Consistency in "doing foo..." strings

2008-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
Most strings of this type in D-I correctly don't have a space before the ellipsis, but three do: kbd-chooser: _Description: Configuring keyboard ... netcfg: _Description: Searching for wireless access points ... _Description: Storing network settings ... We have fixed those in the D-I SVN reposi

Re: Consistency in "doing foo..." strings

2008-03-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'd like to fix those, but the question is whether we should unfuzzy > translations for the fix or let translators check their translations? > I'd suggest to unfuzzy. I'd vote for unfuzzy as well. I always supported the idea that using correct typographi

Re: Consistency in "doing foo..." strings

2008-03-07 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Frans Pop wrote: Most strings of this type correctly don't have a space before the ellipsis, but three do: kbd-chooser: _Description: Configuring keyboard ... netcfg: _Description: Searching for wireless access points ... _Description: Storing network settings ... I'd like to fix those, but t

Consistency in "doing foo..." strings

2008-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
Most strings of this type correctly don't have a space before the ellipsis, but three do: kbd-chooser: _Description: Configuring keyboard ... netcfg: _Description: Searching for wireless access points ... _Description: Storing network settings ... I'd like to fix those, but the question is whet