Bug 15271

Summary: "%s's password" string
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Christian Rose <menthos>
Component: usermodeAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Version: 7.0CC: milan.kerslager, teg
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Description Christian Rose 2000-08-03 17:15:05 UTC 
#: ../userhelper.c:197
#, c-format
msgid "%s's password"

This doesn't look good in English, and it gets even worse when translating
into Swedish.
Swedish doesn't use an added apostrophe and an s, but just an added s to
imply ownership.
So "menthos's password" would be "menthoss lvsenord" in Swedish.

Could there please be some logic added to detect if the username ends in
an s or z, and then two different messages used?

This applies to the message
"In order to run \"%s\" with %s's privileges, additional information is"
"required."
too, as it has the same type of "%s's" problem.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-03 18:24:50 UTC 
This'll be changed to "password for %s" as soon as I get the installation of the
.po files cleared up.
Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-08-04 06:13:35 UTC 
1.27-3 is now available at http://people.redhat.com/nalin/test/.