RFT: Use Greek semicolons for comdlg32's printer status enumeration?

[Francois Gouget]

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So what I've gathered from Wikipedia is that the Greek language does not 
use semicolons as a separator for enumerations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon#Greek_and_Church_Slavonic

| In Greek and Church Slavonic, a semicolon indicates a question, 
| similar to a Latin question mark.[2] To indicate a long pause or 
| separate sections, each with commas (the semicolon's purpose in 
| English), Greek uses an ano teleia ( · ).

Wine uses semicolons as a separator in one place, for comdlg32's printer 
status enumeration. It's a list of status indicators separated by 
semicolons and looks like this:

Error; Paper jam;
or
    Initialising; Default Printer; I/O Active;

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?

RFT: Use Greek semicolons for comdlg32's printer status enumeration?

[Jerome Leclanche]

2012/2/25 Francois Gouget
> 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

RFT: Use Greek semicolons for comdlg32's printer status enumeration?

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
[...]
> - 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.

Would the attached patch be better?

RFT: Use Greek semicolons for comdlg32's printer status enumeration?

[Jerome Leclanche]

Yes. Looks good.

J. Leclanche

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Francois Gouget  wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> [...]
> > - 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.
>
> Would the attached patch be better?
>
> --
> Francois Gouget               http://fgouget.free.fr/
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> the
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> since.
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