Re: Letter case of "admin option"

On 2022-Aug-23, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:

> commands/user.c
> @707:
> > errmsg("must have admin option on role \"%s\" to add members",
> @1971:
> > errmsg("grantor must have ADMIN OPTION on \"%s\"",
>
> A grep'ing told me that the latter above is the only outlier among 6
> occurrences in total of "admin option/ADMIN OPTION".
>
> Don't we unify them? I slightly prefer "ADMIN OPTION" but no problem
> with them being in small letters. (Attached).

As a translator, it makes a huge difference to have them in upper vs.
lower case. In the former case I would keep it untranslated, while in
the latter I would translate it. Given that these are keywords to use
in a command, I think making them uppercase is the better approach.

I see several other messages using "admin option" in lower case in
user.c. The Spanish translation contains one translation already and it
is somewhat disappointing; I would prefer to have it as uppercase there
too.

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