Re: Unhelpful error message
- From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg tristatelogic com>
- To: gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Unhelpful error message
- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 14:38:28 -0700
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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