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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] et_EE locale and language of error messages
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:08:22
Message-Id: 446DC1D6.2090602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] et_EE locale and language of error messages by "Harald van Dijk"
1 Harald van Dijk wrote:
2
3 > is a feature, not a bug. It can indeed be a problem in bugreports, but
4 > it's a much milder one, since it's trivial to look up what any
5 > particular message is translated from.
6
7 Well no, I completely disagree. Error output in $random language makes
8 searching for duplicate bugs very difficult/impossible, also doesn't
9 make fixing the bugs any easier....
10
11 When people report bugs, they need to report the errors in English. We
12 also don't allow bugs to be filed in $random language, I don't see why
13 error messages should be an exception.
14
15 Feel free to write a translation tool for error messages, until then
16 this is a no go... ;)
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20
21 Jakub Moc
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