Re: Dear linux man-pages maintainer,

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Seth, Helge,

On 3/11/23 19:56, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> 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.

Agree.

> 
> (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.

About this, in the Linux man-pages we tend to favor correct English,
and not words like runlevel or userspace.  So, when it is a noun it
is run level, and when it's an adjective, it's run-level.  I'll have
a look at it, and see what needs fixing.

Cheers,

Alex

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

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