Messages in this thread | | | From | ketil@ii ... | Subject | Re: New Feature Idea: Configurable text(msgs) | Date | 17 Mar 1998 20:21:42 +0100 |
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Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net> writes:
> "Yeah, yeah, he said dump." > "Oh my god, they taped the brutal slaying of Kenny!"
Heh, right.
> Also, why not have most of the error messages configurable? Ie kernel > translations into other languages?
Gut reaction: No.
Pondering about it, I think it's an advantage that I can, in the event of a kernel error message:
a) Do a search on Altavista for the message, and come up with people who've had the same problem, and hopefully a solution as well. Even if they're posting the rest of the post in German (babelfish, here I come!) b) Mail the error message to developers, without having them twisting their brain trying to work out the correct back-translation from Norwegian to English (or whatever their working language is) c) Rely on a complete set of sensible and consistent error messages (i.e. what happens if somebody translates a kernel, and I apply patches to it in a different language? )
With some clever design, b) and c) could be resolved I guess. But I don't think it is worth it, and while the notion that kernel developers ought to learn English is perhaps a bit arrogant, I don't think it's an unreasonable demand.
Look at the extreme mess MS made out of trying to i18n their stuff, I get every app in a weird mixture of Norwegian, English and German.
Not that my vote counts a lot, of course.... :-)
~kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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