Re: Translations, GNOME and KDE

[Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu peacefulaction org>]

Luis Villa wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 11:45, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
>>>2-Reduce the pos to only UI visable strings, no normal user will take a
>>>look at Debug strings and so speak with coders about which strings to
>>>include on the pos and which not...
>>
>>Possibly controversial, but not something I'll get into. ;-)
> 
> 
> FWIW, I don't think this should be controversial at all. Coders who
> don't know English are already in a deep hole, and debug string in a
> foreign language reported to english-speaking hackers or (worse) into
> bugzilla are of virtually no use. If it goes to console, it should never
> be marked for translation (IMHO.)

Agreed - in fact in case of some languages, messages that are supposed 
to be displayed on the console are not displayed at all - simply because 
the console does not support rendering such scripts.
-sdg-



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