Error codes are also searchable, but I agree that text is even more search-aware. However, also as a Yankee, I often find search results for an error string leading me to a site in, say, Russian or Korean. This is a direct result of log messages NOT being i18n'ed. I suppose it swings both ways...
-- Eric Windisch On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote: > Re: [Openstack] Question on i8ln? Agreed, I do that as well. > > But I’m also a biased yankee, now a californian (not hippie/ster yet, haha). > > On 2/13/12 2:37 PM, "Andrew Bogott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2/13/12 3:58 PM, Eric Windisch wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm guessing that you're looking at this from a developer's perspective > > > rather than a support and operations perspective. Developers will > > > understand English, but the operations and especially the support team > > > may not. Having native language log messages has the potential to > > > significantly decrease support costs for users both domestic and abroad > > > (where domestic users might outsource support). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The one thing I consistently use log messages for is googling. If everyone > > in the world gets the same log message for a given error, that drastically > > increases the chances that I'll find that log message in a forum post > > someplace. Doesn't localizing log messages fragment the world of support > > forums into a zillion language-specific shards? (Full disclosure: I speak > > English, so this argument may be an unconscious front for Yankee > > Imperialism.) > > > > > >
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