At 1:08 PM +0100 2005-12-07, =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Vermo?= wrote:
May I suggest a zero-lingual base version? The only way to make software truly language independent is to avoid the concept of a "default language". If everybody has to get a language file, developers will be forced to think about localization issues.
You have to use some sort of tag to translate the message into, and that tag is going to have to exist in some language. And the programmers are going to have to think in some language while writing the code which will handle the tag.
Or do you propose that all the programmers are going to have to forget all the native languages they know and instead use randomly generated gibberish tags? How do you propose to maintain that code?
When you go talking to other people in the world, do you work in a zero-language manner internally, so that you can make sure that you never have to translate from some native language into another native language?
When you can do that for all your native language discussions, you can come back here and share with us how that works and how you would modify that to work with programming languages and i18n.
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