I think Rick raises some good points.
I've never seen i18n'ed debug msgs in other products I've worked on either, and it makes what should be a quick and easy debugging aid into something that's heavyweight both to code and to debug with.... --G > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Rineholt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RE: cvs commit: > xml-axis/java/src/org/apache/axis/wsdl/toJava Jav > aComplexTypeWriter.java JavaStubWriter.java > > > I agree here with Glen. I have never seen in my time in IBM > where debug > trace was I18N. > I have also worked overseas and for technical positions it > was understood > that English was > a requirement. I even once asked some of the developers at > the time why > they didn't get > product documentation in their native language and was told > that technical > translations were so > poor that it was almost useless. Besides the trace > information is for the > most part useless > unless you have a reasonable understanding of the code in > which case as > part of the translation > effort will the code comments be also translated? :-) It also adds > additional cumbersome when > trying to debug to have to look up in message tables to match > the trace > statements with the > outputs. Which also leads to developers ultimately not putting trace > statements in whatsoever. > > > >I don't agree (obviously, since I keep i18ning them!). > IBM's got customer > >support sites all over the world. Most of the problems they > support will > >be resolved by them and not even get to a developer back > here. When they > >tell their customers to turn on debug, they would really > prefer to work in > >their own language. > >Russell Butek > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/14/2002 10:16:30 PM > >Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >cc: > >Subject: RE: cvs commit: > xml-axis/java/src/org/apache/axis/wsdl/toJava > >Jav aComplexTypeWriter.java JavaStubWriter.java > > > > > >You know, if you ask me, it's going a bit far to internationalize > debugging > >trace messages.... > > > > > Rick Rineholt > "The truth is out there... All you need is a better search engine!" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
