Japanese (speaking) developer needed for a bit of regex magic

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/21/2010 7:46 AM, Sebastian wrote:

> The Amazon API returns an XML response which contains error messages
> if a request fails. These messages consist of an error code and an
> error description in natural language. Luckily, the description seems
> to stick to the same format and is (in all but one case) in plain
> English. Much to my dismay I discovered that the Japanese locale
> translates the error message!

Could you, when you get an error message, resubmit the request in the 
standard locale so you get the messages in English? Or is the 'locale' 
set by the url -- amazon.com versus amazon.co.jp?

After you parse, are you trying to formulate a substitute message in 
Japanese?

Terry Jan Reedy