[Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/25/2010 2:31 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>> 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?

I remember the same discussion, and yeah, the final position was that
including the original English text along with the localised text made
the most sense. The idea didn't really go anywhere after that though,
since it is still a *lot* of work.

Cheers,
Nick.

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