From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 15 17:40:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA20782 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:40:03 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA20769 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 1995 17:39:47 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA05393; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:41:47 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510160111.KAA05393@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: A couple problems in FreeBSD 2.1.0-950922-SNAP To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:41:46 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199510160006.UAA06783@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 15, 95 08:06:30 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1207 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kaleb S. KEITHLEY stands accused of saying: > >The > > extensive (i.e. blatant) use of message catalogs (AIX, IRIX) leads to > > very undesirable results, e.g. SMTP daemons throwing their error > > messages in German. :-( > > It's hard for me to know how something like smtpd would get its locale > set to de_DE in order to do that, but I wonder if that wouldn't be what > I'd want if I were in Germany. I'll second that 8) The AIX/OS2 etc standard of "(reference) message" is still my favorite - the messages are usually verbose and at least vaguely informative, and the numbers mean that when a luser is reading it to you over the 'phone, that's all you need, coz you can look it up locally. (And thus it doesn't matter what language the message is in, because you can regenerate it at will with the catalog lookup tool) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[