From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 27 02:19:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11845 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:19:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsd.synx.com (rt.synx.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA11831; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 02:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@synx.com) Received: from synx.com (rn [192.1.1.241]) by bsd.synx.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA11736; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:17:11 +0100 Message-Id: <199808270917.KAA11736@bsd.synx.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:17:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy NONNENMACHER Reply-To: remy@synx.com Subject: Re: Almost Back... To: kline@thought.org cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980826220902.43224@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA11835 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Aug, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 12:00:27AM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: >> According to Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav : >> > "Usage" is correct, but perhaps a little stilted. "utilisation" sounds >> > a little long but is otherwise OK. >> >> "Syntaxe : " seems maybe more appropriate than "Utilisation :" while staying >> correct (and shorter). >> OK for 'Syntaxe'. more informational and precise than 'Utilisation'. >> > I'd go for "Fin de fichier" without hyphens. >> It's correct in term of syntax. Once again, beware of # or orders of fields ouputs. BTW, I had a look on translations provided with some commercial Unixes. I noticed that error messages are quiet always translated without regard to nb of fields, but normal outputs are never translated is it doesn't preserve orders or # of fields. Also, many programs keep English output when scripts are known to use a result from a specific column. RN. ---- Hum, does this discussion won't quickly bother f-hackers ? ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message