Re: some spelling and grammar fixes for messages and man pages

[Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013, at 12:29, Karel Zak wrote:
>  Please, ALWAYS when you want to change any very common message then
>  see po/util-linux.pot. 
>  
>  We have on "cannot open %s" on more than 100 places!
> 
>  The ideal solution is to use already translated message than
>  introduce new one. Or if you don't like the message then change the
>  string on *all places*. 

Yes, you are right.  I wasn't thinking.

>  It would be nice to cleanup all the messages and use for example
> 
>     cannot open %s
>     cannot close %s
>     cannot read %s
>     cannot write %s
>     seek on %s failed
> 
>  on all places. Now (rc1) is the ideal time for this change.

I will be working on that.

>  (Not sure why someone updated util-linux on translationproject.org
>   when there is no -rc2 yet.)

I did.  To give translators extra time to catch up, because there have
been massive string changes.  And to give them a chance to report
errors or doubts, and get them fixed before rc2.

Benno


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