From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 16 22:55:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA00307 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:55:10 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA00301 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:55:09 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA25712; Mon, 16 Jan 95 23:49:20 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501170649.AA25712@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: CVS stuff To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 23:49:20 MST Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9501170353.AA23687@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jan 16, 95 10:53:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > < > > I have yet to see alternate message catalogs for, for instance, ash, csh, > > and bash... > > Perhaps because no-one cares? > > Printing messages in a different language other than the standard one > is generally counterproductive, unless you want to go the idiotic IBM > way (or the bozotic DEC way) and cite each message by number in > addition to name. What does siting message by number have to do with not citing message by English Message Text? !a => b? That's a logical fallacy. The idea is to *not* cite by English ("the standard language") and *not* cite by numeric message, but *instead* look up the message to present in a catalog and present the one for the current user selected locale. The problem peing pointed to is the lack of respect for the locale exhibited by, among other basic components, the shells. It makes no sense to be able to display Russian, for instance, if none of the data on the system is Russian text! The idea that "no one cares" (to do the work, yet) is probably a lot closer to the real mark, than is the paragraph following it. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.