Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: some strings with problems

[Mike Frysinger]

On 08 Mar 2016 18:02, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> The messages with capitals in them were inherited from Pico.
> But I propose to remove the space before the question mark,
> and to use a semicolon instead of a comma where appropriate.
> See the first attached patch.

we should omit the space before punctuation.

> Looking through the Croatian PO file, I noticed that one of
> the messages that is put up on the statusbar is too long --
> 81 characters, when on an 80-column terminal only 76 positions
> are available for the message (the other 4 being taken up by
> the brackets and spaces: "[  ]").
> 
> To see if there are more strings that are too long, I did this:
> 
> msgmerge --no-wrap /dev/null po/nano.pot >blank.pot
> 
> grep "^msgid " blank.pot | sed 's/msgid "//' | sed 's/"$//' |
>     while read line; do echo "$(echo $line | wc -c)  $line"; done |
>     grep -v "^. " | sort | less
> 
> Luckily, it is the only line that is too long (the corresponding
> plural message will be even one character longer):
> 
> 81  Read %lu line (Converted from DOS and Mac format - Warning: No write 
> permission)
> 
> The second patch shortens this string.

i think having "warning" is more clear, but i won't lose sleep over it
-mike

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