2012/2/25 Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr>

So I would expect the Greek translation to use ano teleia characters as
the separator but instead it uses plain semicolons:

msgid "Paused; "
msgstr "Σταματημένος; "

msgid "Error; "
msgstr "Σφάλμα; "

msgid "Busy; "
msgstr "Απασχολημένος; "

So I'm hoping some Greek-speaking Wine hacker or user can enlighten me
on the following points:
* Did I understand Wikipedia wrong? Do both English semicolons and
question marks translate to a semicolon in Greek?

* Is this a special case that justifies not following the standard
rule? If so why?

* Does the attached patch replacing semicolons with ano teleia
characters make sense?

(Greek is my second native language)

- You understood Wikipedia correctly, a latin semicolon character is always interpreted as a questionmark.

- You will never find a semicolon used as anything else in (proper) Greek. There are no special cases. Though you'll commonly find people using a latin questionmark instead of a semicolon online.

- I don't think an ano telia would be appropriate for this. To be honest I don't even find a semicolon appropriate in English here.

I don't build with printing support but it sounds to me like it would be more appropriate to use a comma, or a dash.

J. Leclanche