Re: [PATCH 2/5] hwclock: clean up message periods/full stops

[Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 04:49, JWP wrote:
> 33% of message lines terminated with a period/full stop.

You mean 33% of hwclock messages, or 33% of util-linux messages?

> This is unsightly and difficult to read.

Ehm...  I would think the lack of periods would make things
more difficult to read.

> -		      ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date.\n"
> -		       "In particular, it contains quotation marks."));
> +		      ("The value of the --date option is not a valid date\n"
> +		       "In particular, it contains quotation marks"));

This is ugly.  Two lines of text and it's unclear that the first
sentence ends at the end of the line.  If you absolutely want
to get rid of the period, put a semicolon after "valid date" and
lowercase "in particular".

[...]

All just cosmetic changes, invalidating all the translations.
Not nice.

Benno

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