Dirk Stöcker <openstreet...@dstoecker.de> writes: > Message intended to be visible to user must be translated. Messages > meant as security checks or debugging texts which never should be visible > to a user may remain untranslated. > > When in doubt they should be translated, but also descriptive for a user.
Sure, if there is a chance a user gets to see the message it should be localized. But, there are many that have no meaning to the user whatsoever and that only get displayed by the unhandled exception dialog. To translate those only produces overhead for no benfit. I would actually argue that in most cases the exception handler needs to provide a meaningful message to the user because the method that throws it does not have the context to know what the user actually did or needs to do in order to solve the problem. Matthias _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev