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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> | 2016-08-02 02:19:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Justus Winter <[email protected]> | 2016-08-03 14:55:33 +0000 |
| commit | dc107b78509807db375d3a382eb3376cd2183357 (patch) | |
| tree | ef7301b4b8d2556a526e0f3c79cd532ba98f6c60 /common | |
| parent | dirmngr: Emit correct spelling of "superseded". (diff) | |
| download | gnupg-dc107b78509807db375d3a382eb3376cd2183357.tar.gz gnupg-dc107b78509807db375d3a382eb3376cd2183357.zip | |
More cleanup of "allow to".
* README, agent/command.c, agent/keyformat.txt, common/i18n.c,
common/iobuf.c, common/keyserver.h, dirmngr/cdblib.c,
dirmngr/ldap-wrapper.c, doc/DETAILS, doc/TRANSLATE,
doc/announce-2.1.txt, doc/gpg.texi, doc/gpgsm.texi,
doc/scdaemon.texi, doc/tools.texi, doc/whats-new-in-2.1.txt,
g10/export.c, g10/getkey.c, g10/import.c, g10/keyedit.c, m4/ksba.m4,
m4/libgcrypt.m4, m4/ntbtls.m4, po/ca.po, po/cs.po, po/da.po,
po/de.po, po/el.po, po/eo.po, po/es.po, po/et.po, po/fi.po,
po/fr.po, po/gl.po, po/hu.po, po/id.po, po/it.po, po/ja.po,
po/nb.po, po/pl.po, po/pt.po, po/ro.po, po/ru.po, po/sk.po,
po/sv.po, po/tr.po, po/uk.po, po/zh_CN.po, po/zh_TW.po,
scd/app-p15.c, scd/ccid-driver.c, scd/command.c, sm/gpgsm.c,
sm/sign.c, tools/gpgconf-comp.c, tools/gpgtar.h: replace "Allow to"
with clearer text.
In standard English, the normal construction is "${XXX} allows ${YYY}
to" -- that is, the subject (${XXX}) of the sentence is allowing the
object (${YYY}) to do something. When the object is missing, the
phrasing sounds awkward, even if the object is implied by context.
There's almost always a better construction that isn't as awkward.
These changes should make the language a bit clearer.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'common')
| -rw-r--r-- | common/i18n.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | common/iobuf.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | common/keyserver.h | 4 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/common/i18n.c b/common/i18n.c index 39e3d8fcc..413fa9a26 100644 --- a/common/i18n.c +++ b/common/i18n.c @@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ i18n_utf8 (const char *string) } -/* A variant of gettext which allows to specify the local to use for - translating the message. The function assumes that utf-8 is used - for the encoding. */ +/* A variant of gettext which allows the programmer to specify the + locale to use for translating the message. The function assumes + that utf-8 is used for the encoding. */ const char * i18n_localegettext (const char *lc_messages, const char *string) { diff --git a/common/iobuf.c b/common/iobuf.c index 9d582ca20..06d0b6144 100644 --- a/common/iobuf.c +++ b/common/iobuf.c @@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ iobuf_cancel (iobuf_t a) #if defined(HAVE_W32_SYSTEM) || defined(__riscos__) if (remove_name) { - /* Argg, MSDOS does not allow to remove open files. So + /* Argg, MSDOS does not allow removing open files. So * we have to do it here */ #ifdef HAVE_W32CE_SYSTEM wchar_t *wtmp = utf8_to_wchar (remove_name); diff --git a/common/keyserver.h b/common/keyserver.h index 63dbde69f..200378d9b 100644 --- a/common/keyserver.h +++ b/common/keyserver.h @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ /* Must be 127 due to shell internal magic. */ #define KEYSERVER_SCHEME_NOT_FOUND 127 -/* Object to hold information pertaining to a keyserver; it further - allows to build a list of keyservers. Note that g10/options.h has +/* Object to hold information pertaining to a keyserver; it also + allows building a list of keyservers. Note that g10/options.h has a typedef for this. FIXME: We should make use of the parse_uri_t. */ struct keyserver_spec |