[Ffmpeg-cvslog] CVS: ffmpeg/doc ffserver.conf,1.18,1.19

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg
Thu Jun 9 22:32:42 CEST 2005


Hi,

On 6/9/05, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:36:26PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
[..]
> > In the line preceding the changed ones, there is an apparently
> > extraneous space by the colon.
> 
> Probably Fabrice (or another frenchman) wrote this config file.  Apparently
> it is French typographical rule to put a space before a colon.

Yes, that's it. FYI, the rule is to add an unbreakable space before
every "double" punctuation sign, like ';' and ':'... which is a pain a
the computer industry, because such thing pretty much exits only in
word processors... so we tend to more and more adopt English
typography... one more battle that Mickey Mouse / Uncle Sam won! :-)

Guillaume
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