Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

[Russ Allbery]

Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Eh? Are you saying that Perl's error message should be adapted to the
> language of the computer user?

Yes.  Most major free software packages already do this.

> I don't like that.

You can always not set the environment variables.

> How would Perl decide on what language to use? Some environment
> variable?

Yes, there's a POSIX standard for this.

> And what about programmer supplied error messages? Should the programmer
> supply lots of languge versions as well?

That's an interesting problem; I think there definitely should be
mechanisms available to do this if so wished.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>