Re: Unhelpful error message




In message <CAEmWKkTos-p4iwV_if-Y=XAg9y=UYpWimwyJtxyTLc519T_7WA mail gmail com>
Steve White <stevan white gmail com> wrote:

Agreed, this message is sub-minimal in content, despite its wordiness.

How about reporting
* what locale was not supported
* which library failed to support the locale
* what "fallback locale" it is falling back to.
* where it's getting this "fallback locale"
* what to do about it

These questions could be answered by a message like:

Gtk-WARNING **: Locale 'en_RU' not supported by C library libc.so.
           Falling back to default 'C' locale 'en_AU'.  See 'man
locale', 'man 5 locale'.

OK, so at least one person agrees with me that this message... which
is apparently confusing a *lot* of people... is somewhat less helpful
than it could be.  Good.  So now, the question:  To whom should I
appeal in order to get the message improved?



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