On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > More or less I'm asking them to learn "bad", "need", "not", "unknown", "no", > and "can't". Then guess the rest from context. I can be a little more > lenient when it's perror_exit() instead of error_exit(), because then a libc > translated error message gets appended so 'nonsense nonsense nonsense: > "yourfilename": permission denied' is understandable whatever the nonsense > is, and if that's true I can skip the nonsense entirely or just put "bad". > > But I'm a native english speaker. I don't know if this is an effective > approach. Does anybody who ISN'T a native english speaker have an opinion? > > Rob
Going with a super small set of english words for error description is great. P.S. I'm a non-native english speaker. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
