Re: Typos in diagnostics

[Roland Illig]

On 07.03.2020 20:05, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Roland Illig <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a member of the German translation team for gawk, and I have read
> > through the gawk.pot file. I noticed a few small issues:
>
> Seems like more than a few. :-)
>
> Thank you for the thorough review.

Thank you for fixing all the small issues I remarked, so quickly.

While doing the translation I noticed a few more things.

> fts: first parameter is not an array

In awk, variables do not have types, only values do. If you are strict
about distinguishing parameters from arguments, the above message should
rather be:

> %s: first argument is not an array

There are still some of the "first argument is not" messages that end
with a newline and some that don't. Since I'm using Poedit, these
mistakes are caught reliably. Still, it would be better overall to
follow a single style.

> close of `%s' failed: %s.

The other diagnostics don't end with a period. This applies to a few
other diagnostics as well. These all end in "%s.".

> Examples:

You replaced the first "gawk" with "%s", but not the second one. Why not?

I just sent you the updated German translation via the Translation Project.

Roland