wine users - Feb 2012 - RFT: Use Greek semicolons for comdlg32's printer status enumeration?

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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 "????????????; "

    msgid "Error; "
    msgstr "??????; "

    msgid "Busy; "
    msgstr "?????????????; "


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 <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
     You can have my guns when you pry them from my kids cold, dead hands.
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2012/2/25 Francois Gouget <fgouget at 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 "????????????; "
>
>    msgid "Error; "
>    msgstr "??????; "
>
>    msgid "Busy; "
>    msgstr "?????????????; "
>
>
> 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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