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has caused the Debian Bug report #419233,
regarding zsh: error messages start with lowercase letters
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> $ cd 404
> cd: datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden: 404
> 
> zsh puts the first character of an error message into lowercase.  While
> one may find that this looks better in English, it is clearly wrong in
> German where nouns are always capitalized.  A patch is attached.

Anyone have a clever idea on how to retain the historical behavior in
English-speaking locales?

> diff -ur zsh-4.3.2.orig/Src/utils.c zsh-4.3.2/Src/utils.c
> --- zsh-4.3.2.orig/Src/utils.c        2007-04-14 15:38:58.000000000 +0200
> +++ zsh-4.3.2/Src/utils.c     2007-04-14 15:39:57.000000000 +0200
> @@ -171,15 +171,7 @@
>                   errflag = 1;
>                   return;
>               }
> -             /* If the message is not about I/O problems, it looks better *
> -              * if we uncapitalize the first letter of the message        */
> -             if (num == EIO)
> -                 fputs(strerror(num), stderr);
> -             else {
> -                 char *errmsg = strerror(num);
> -                 fputc(tulower(errmsg[0]), stderr);
> -                 fputs(errmsg + 1, stderr);
> -             }
> +             fputs(strerror(num), stderr);
>               break;
>           }
>       } else {

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