Re: [PATCH] Polish translation for subversion messages

> > One question: I don't read Polish, but: did you read the conventions for
> > error messages in HACKING? I think you introduced quite a number of
> newlines
> > in error messages. HACKING suggests to only do that in case absolutely
> > required (which is almost never :-)
>
> Polish sentences tend to be longer than their English equivalents. I
> tried to keep them short but not desperately (i.e. I preferred
> understandability to being short).
>
> I will review my translation to check whether sth can be shortened but
> I'm not sure it will always be possible.
>
> In the near future I am to compile subversion with my translation
> enabled and check how the texts look in reality...

See http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-06/1342.shtml for the
discussion Greg Hudson was referring to. The matter is not about the
sentences being longer than 70 characters, but about the built-in \n's; they
imply that the user will be working with a terminal of a certain width.

I'll update HACKING to link to it.

bye,

Erik.

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