Re: Errors in man pages, here: console_codes(4): Punctuation

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On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 21:35, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Michael,
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:59:00AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > On 4/19/20 8:47 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > **
> > >
> > > s/, and CAN/. CAN/
> > >
> > > "If we have a control character, it is acted upon immediately and then "
> > > "discarded (even in the middle of an escape sequence)  and the escape "
> > > "sequence continues with the next character.  (However, ESC starts a new "
> > > "escape sequence, possibly aborting a previous unfinished one, and CAN and "
> > > "SUB abort any escape sequence.)  The recognized control characters are BEL, "
> > > "BS, HT, LF, VT, FF, CR, SO, SI, CAN, SUB, ESC, DEL, CSI.  They do what one "
> > > "would expect:"
> >
> > I think the existing text is okay. What's the problem?
>
> I assume the translator aimed for shorter sentences. But here the
> sentences are not to long, so I can perfectly understand if you keep
> the text as is.
>
> I'll remove the comment.

Okay.

Thanks,

Michael
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