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The word extension is used differently #1792
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Hi and welcome to inconsistency corner 😁. This is a problem that infests many places of both operating systems and languages and libraries, what to call stuff relating to files, common options seem to be:
Which words you use depends on what your programming/computer use background is, I am not sure any particular one is "correct". To the specific examples:
I would say replace "would" by "was" and "filename" by "the" are the only changes needed if at all.
Seems fine, the code that generates the message is indicating that in this instance the extension must be specified without the separating dot.
Seems fine, the
Since %s is the name of a file probably better as "Unknown filetype for extension of %s"
Given that this is an option to hide the extensions of a list of files its probably quite reasonable. |
The word "extension" seems to be used differently maybe make it the same:
"filename extension", "filetype extension", "file extension".
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