[freeciv-i18n] Re: English original text, change proposal

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:22:52PM +0200, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 09:30, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:43:53AM +0200, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> > > 
> > > _("%s: Fatal error: you're trying to run me as superuser!\n")
> > > 
> > > The output of this line, is IMHO very bad,  there are 2 colon (:) and
> > > thus the message is very readable.
> > > 
> > > Isn't this a better text?
> > > 
> > > _("Fatal error: you're trying to run %s program as superuser!\n")
> > > 
> > > I'm not English native speaker, but this way there is a clear definition
> > > (Fatal error) and the related issue, with the subject (%s) that has
> > > raised the problem.
> > > 
> > Well both texts fulfill the purpose of this message, which is a rather
> > technical one, since it is presented to the console operator or in a log
> > file. Many Linux programs behave like this, try sed, make, mount e.g.
> 
> Sorry, but what you mean? make, sed or mount are not executable by root?
> Or that they issue fatal error messages with the freeciv format?

The latter.

You see this kind of error mesage often with console programs - so I
just think its common. Not that it worries me if you change it.

> I've made my proposal for 2 reason:
> 
> 1. Having 2 colon (:) seems awkward to me.
> 
> 2. The freelog call, normally resemble my definition, not the one that
> is currently implemented. (N.B. Inside that relevant procedure, freelog
> can't be used, so a printf family call is used)

The message doesn't appear in a Freeciv logfile.

Christian

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