On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 12:23  PM, Max Horn wrote:

> Plus considering that for most Unix work and for a majority of Fink 
> packages, you have to be able to speak english anyway. Note that I 
> don't want to imply with this that I think localization is useless, far 
> to the contrary I strongly believe in l10n and i18n, but it's still a 
> matter of priority and spent resources.
>
>
Unix is not strictly english-- I've seen my share of bug reports 
stemming from localized GNU tools. The source code for xmysqladmin is 
mostly French. Nonetheless, it's not all that difficult to understand.

However, good localization requires native speakers.

Jeremy



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