Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:29:33 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: babkin@users.sf.net Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c Message-ID: <28030.1131542973@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:45:47 CST." <26769408.1131540347713.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net>
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In message <26769408.1131540347713.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net>, Sergey Babkin writes: >>+> I'm sorry, but localization of messages of this caliber is a totally >>+> bogus concern which I intend to ignore 100%. >> >>Even then, this is quite annoying to see one communicate in two >>languages: >> >> Błąd wywołania mount(2): Invalid fspath > >I kind of feel that localization is evil to start with. >Especially when users from random countries start >asking questions about messages they receive, and >you can't understand the messages because you >don't know the language, and can't even search >for them easily in the code. Even when I do understand >the language I still hate the localized messages. The way IBM tackles that is to put a unique message number at the start of each message. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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