Hi Helge, At 2023-01-22T20:31:33+0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Without further ado, the following was found: > > Issue: all locales. → all locales: > > "The B<wctype>() function returns a property, given by its name. The set of " > "valid names depends on the B<LC_CTYPE> category of the current locale, but " > "the following names are valid in all locales." I disagree with this. The material that follows does not serve to end the sentence; it is a displayed list of items with no grammatical structure. The colon in English must be followed by an independent clause. (A list of comma-separated items, or a list of semicolon-separated items that contain commas is tolerated after a colon by some style guides.) It is distressingly common that, in particular, programmers use colons as a hatch for escaping the rules of English grammar, but it is _not_ correct usage, and any migration should be away from this practice, not toward it. Regards, Branden
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