> > I've decided for myself that all informational messages should get > > translated, but no errors and no warnings. > > I think all messages should be translated, because it would benefit > non-English speakers even more (and allow them to solve their own problems, > instead of forcing them to ask for help.)
This was my first thought as well.
> I think it would be a good idea however to give each error/warning/etc. a
> number or some sort of ID code which is always printed and never
translated,
> so if someone asks for help and the error messages are in another language
> all you need to do is look up the ID code to find out what the message is
in
> your own language.
Yes, already thought about this. It's not a bad idea, but not too less
work ;-)
Other (bigger) projects incorporate a debug-class or something similar for
this task, making error-numbers not that important. KDE for example would do
this:
log.warn(tr("Warning about some stupid thing"));
kdebug << "Something strange happened here";
where the "log.warn" thing would be presented to the user (beeing translated
to the users language), and the kdebug thing appears untranslated on the
terminal, therefore useable for debugging.
> Alternatively you could print the localised message followed by the English
> equivalent in brackets, but I don't think that's as 'nice' a solution as
the
> other one.
Ah, no please don't, this would be quite ugly. If I adjust the daemon to be
localizeable i'd like to have either all messages beeing translated with
error-numbering, or only info-messages beeing translated, leaving all the
warnings and errors as they are.
If anyone has a better idea?!
> I'm assuming the reason you didn't want to translate these
> messages was because it would be difficult to help people if you can't read
> the error message yourself?
yeah :)
i don't want to be the one interpreting a cyrillic error message to something
useful *g*
Thomas
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