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From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com, mario.blaettermann@gmail.com,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dear linux man-pages maintainer,
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:56:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230311185634.GA441010@demorgan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230311171354.GA4709@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>

Hi Helge,

I am not the maintainer or anything, but I think it's great that
translators give feedback on the original text.

I have two disagreements with your changes:

(1) You proposed correcting "null byte" to "NUL byte".  However, "null
byte" is a standard way to refer to a byte with the numerical value of
zero.  This byte is also the same as the ASCII character NUL; it could
be regarded as the "encoding" of that character.

(2) You proposed correcting "runlevel" to "run level".  The word
"runlevel" is a coinage by operating system developers; in ordinary
English it would indeed have to be two words, but it's common to write
it with no space in this context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-11 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-11 17:13 Dear linux man-pages maintainer, Helge Kreutzmann
2023-03-11 18:56 ` Seth David Schoen [this message]
2023-03-11 19:51   ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-03-11 23:29   ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-11 23:38     ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-12  5:20     ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-03-12  5:47       ` Seth David Schoen
2023-03-12  6:02         ` Helge Kreutzmann
2023-03-12 11:05           ` Alejandro Colomar

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