RFT: Use Greek semicolons for comdlg32's printer status enum

[Francois Gouget]

Request For Translators<g>

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# ... h_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 "ÓôáìáôçìÝíïò; "

msgid "Error; "
msgstr "ÓöÜëìá; "

msgid "Busy; "
msgstr "Áðáó÷ïëçìÝíïò; "


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?

--
Francois Gouget <[email protected]> http://fgouget.free.fr/
You can have my guns when you pry them from my kids cold, dead hands.
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[Adys]

2012/2/25 Francois Gouget <[email protected]>

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
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