Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:30:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP Message-ID: <199510160730.IAA24180@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199510160006.UAA06783@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 08:06:30 pm
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As Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > > >The > > extensive (i.e. blatant) use of message catalogs (AIX, IRIX) leads to > > very undesirable results, e.g. SMTP daemons throwing their error > > messages in German. :-( > > It's hard for me to know how something like smtpd would get its locale Ask IBM how they did it. :-) > set to de_DE in order to do that, but I wonder if that wouldn't be what > I'd want if I were in Germany. Seriously? So, please, drop a mail to foo@informatik.htw-dresden.de, and the tell me if the error message was really useful for you. Even better, find an AIX mailer in Japan, send a mail there, and... :) IMNSHO, daemons that are throwing messages to the outside world should not be localized. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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