Well...
The only country I can imagine such approach is France.
I don't know Japan, so I cannot say.
However I met mainrame people from South America and they told me they
orderd and use English documentation due to quality (Spanish doco is
horrible - they said).
I have never heard about such problems from Swedish, German or Italian
folks.
Even guys in UK use IBM documentation and understand it! Almost without
complaints. <vbg>
(no offence intended)
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 11.06.2020 o 16:12, Charles Mills pisze:
You have to understand national politics: "we won't buy this product; the
error messages are in English" [not French, Japanese, etc.]
Even though you are of course right, "diskette in drive" is more
understandable to the average French speaker than !! Sys01475
Charles
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Subject: Re: Messages & Codes (was Re: "Everyone wants to retire
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This pair of error messages was a design mistake:
OS/2 !! Sys01475
OS/2 !! Sys02027
That's a case of national language considerations run amok. That was the
only pair of messages you saw on your screen when you formatted a diskette
with OS/2, left the diskette in the primary drive, and rebooted the
typical PC of that era (that didn't automatically try to boot from another
device when there was a diskette in the primary drive).
A diskette's boot sector doesn't have much room, so the designers had to
be concise. They wanted to include at least one error code, and they did.
But then instead of some portion of the planet not understanding what
happened, very nearly the entire planet didn't understand what happened.
:-)
A better design would have used a global message like this:
OS/2 SYS01475: Diskette in Drive!
That's exactly the same number of characters, assuming the new line was
one character. (If not, the colon could have been omitted.) Yes, "Diskette
in Drive!" is technically English, but even so it would have been much
more broadly, globally understood than mystery error codes.
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