On 8/25/2010 2:31 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
On 25/08/2010 21:26, Guido van Rossum wrote:
[snip...]
That sounds painful, but in general I am okay with the idea of
translating messages. I think the system messages (those that go with
IOError and OSError) may already be translated. How to do it without
off-putting the core developers may end up being a research problem.
:-)
+1 - a difficult problem to solve (socially and architecturally but not
technologically) but users are likely to appreciate it.
A downside (from experience with .NET which takes this approach - logic
and class names are all English but error messages are localized) is
that you then get bug reports with localized error messages. It makes
frequent visits to google translate unavoidable...
Localized messages should be in addition to rather than a replacement
for the English version. I thought we had this discussion somewhere --
here? ideas? maybe a tracker issue?
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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