Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:42:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, "Dmitry S. Sivachenko" <dima@Chg.RU>, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettext Message-ID: <3955A9D0.2155A7B4@newsguy.com> References: <20000623195641.C16231@cichlids.cichlids.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006240642580.7974-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20000624183906.B2843@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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[removed from -arch, as this has strayed from the topic] Alexander Langer wrote: > > Yes. But while I prefer German menus in GUI-programs, for example, I > really dislike, that the same LANG var affects those stuff. > > Imagine a bug-report: How do _you_ want to understand an error message > in German?? Error messages must always be accompanied by a mnemonic error code, if they are to be translated. That way, the user can understand the error, *you* can understand the error, and copying error messages becomes easier. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org Windows works, for sufficently small values of "works". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message
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