Serguei A. Mokhov wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 23:31:42 -0400 (EDT) > > > > I have added the setting of local calls to the top of pg_ctl.c. I > > did not localize ".", nor: > > > > printf("%s (PostgreSQL) %s\n", progname, PG_VERSION); > > > > This does not change based on locale, and none of our other > > applications adjust this for locale. > > Maybe not the printf() above, but the "." is different in Chinese ;-) > (I'm not arguing for these changes).
You're right. Even things like parentheses and colons require translation in general. But the version string never changes as a matter of principle, so that it is machine-readable. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster