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Some full stops are missing in the descriptions of the plugins of PowerToys Run #31783

Open septsea opened 3 months ago

septsea commented 3 months ago

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.79.0

Utility with translation issue

PowerToys Run

🌐 Language affected

English

❌ Actual phrase(s)

As is shown in the screenshot, full stops are used in most of the descriptions of the plugins, while it is not the case for a few plugins, which is not very consistent.

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✔️ Expected phrase(s)

Just add the missing full stops.

ℹ Why is the current translation wrong

We are convinced that the style of punctuation should be consistent.

septsea commented 3 months ago

Postscript: Since "e.g." is used more frequently than "examples" in the descriptions, replacing Examples: by e.g. is perhaps better.

Jay-o-Way commented 3 months ago

I would vote for the opposite: these are not full sentences. And "examples" is much easier to understand or translate, both in English and in foreign languages.

crutkas commented 3 months ago

Suggestion:

  1. remove periods
  2. standardize to e.g.
niels9001 commented 3 months ago

Suggestion:

  1. remove periods
  2. standardize to e.g.

This is the way.