[Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20100825 20:03], Alcino Dall'Igna Jr (adijbr at gmail.com) wrote:
>If (3) could enter the main trunk it would be a great help by itself.
>In this case access to international help is useless due the original
>difficulties with the language, remember I'm talking about kids
>mainly, and 1st stage to programming for youngsters. There are two
>main ways to do this, one is using codes as indicated, but I prefer
>using the more generally accepted and used, with messages catalogs
>using gettext and the like.

Haven't been able to respond sooner, but maybe one thing was not so clear
about what I wrote since you misrepresented it here. What I was referring to
was this scenario:

ImportError: No module named blah

would become in nl_NL something like:

ImportError: Geen module genaamd blah

Now, if ImportError (or any other error) has only one text, then I could
copy-paste that error message easily and people would understand
contextually from the error which it is, despite the localization.

However, if there's multiple possible messages, how is someone else supposed
to figure out what my localized message means in order to help me out? In
this case I think an approach with a number inventory system works out well,
e.g.:

ImportError (3): Geen module genaamd blah

And the 3 would be a stable number for this particular message.

More examples:

http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0.sag1/html/sag1/sag1485.htm

Oracle:
en_US: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
ja_JP: ORA-00942: 表またはビューが存在しません。


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