[Aptitude-devel] Bug#672467: Bug#672467: [L10N, DE] aptitude: updated german program translation

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> Some of the changes just insert a period at the end of error messages:
> 
> > @@ -1054,7 +1043,7 @@
> >  #: src/cmdline/cmdline_forget_new.cc:56
> >  #, c-format
> >  msgid "E: The forget-new command takes no arguments\n"
> > -msgstr "F: Der »forget-new«-Befehl akzeptiert keine Argumente\n"
> > +msgstr "F: Der »forget-new«-Befehl akzeptiert keine Argumente.\n"
> >
> >  #: src/cmdline/cmdline_forget_new.cc:83
> >  #, c-format
> 
> 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").

> 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.

		Regards, Axel
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