[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/fr mplayer.1,1.57,1.58

Torinthiel torinthiel at wp.pl
Tue Oct 28 13:44:09 CET 2003


On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:36:50PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:50:41PM +0100, nico wrote:
> > > it's a typographic rule: in French, "double signs" (i.e. : ; ! ?)
> > > must be put between two spaces.
> > > 
> > > > > -.B Regardez ?galement la documentation HTML!
> > > > > +.B Regardez ?galement la documentation HTML !
> > Then why           ^
> 
> This is probably the e' character that comes out as ? under a different
> encoding.
Could be. I don't know French, but I found this rule hard to understand. 
What if I have a list of 
an item, another item;
than some more items from another topic
and finally an end.
Why should the ; be different than , and .?
(And my mother, having spoken French fluently, taught by French woman,
but that was LOONG ago, knows nothing of this rule

> 
> Diego
Torinthiel

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