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Re: Bug#419233: zsh: error messages start with lowercase letters
- X-seq: zsh-workers 23274
- From: Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Bug#419233: zsh: error messages start with lowercase letters
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:39:15 -0400
- Cc: Michael Schutte <m.schutte.jr@xxxxxxxxx>, 419233-forwarded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <20070414140521.GA6436@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> $ cd 404
> cd: datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: 404
>
> zsh puts the first character of an error message into lowercase. While
> one may find that this looks better in English, it is clearly wrong in
> German where nouns are always capitalized. A patch is attached.
Anyone have a clever idea on how to retain the historical behavior in
English-speaking locales?
> diff -ur zsh-4.3.2.orig/Src/utils.c zsh-4.3.2/Src/utils.c
> --- zsh-4.3.2.orig/Src/utils.c 2007-04-14 15:38:58.000000000 +0200
> +++ zsh-4.3.2/Src/utils.c 2007-04-14 15:39:57.000000000 +0200
> @@ -171,15 +171,7 @@
> errflag = 1;
> return;
> }
> - /* If the message is not about I/O problems, it looks better *
> - * if we uncapitalize the first letter of the message */
> - if (num == EIO)
> - fputs(strerror(num), stderr);
> - else {
> - char *errmsg = strerror(num);
> - fputc(tulower(errmsg[0]), stderr);
> - fputs(errmsg + 1, stderr);
> - }
> + fputs(strerror(num), stderr);
> break;
> }
> } else {
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