GNU bug report logs - #57736
[PATCH 2/2] news: Fix en dash usage.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 18:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 57736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>, 57736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#57736] [PATCH 2/2] news: Fix en dash usage.
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:00:25 -0300

Hello Florian,

Sorry for the delay in my responses, I've been mostly AFK in the past 2
weeks.

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> writes:

> Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> writes:
>> Ok for the second patch if a native English speaker and a German translator confirm :)
>
> P.S. Turns out Liliana and Julien were right and in German only an en
> dash is correct in parenthetical use.  I’ve also made that mistake in
> the manual translation at one place …  Fixed now, thanks to Julien.  But
> for English em dash is correct.

Sorry about that error. I wasn't aware that there were language-specific
differences in the meaning of em and en dash.

-- 
Thanks
Thiago
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