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Date:      Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:57:34 -0500
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, babkin@users.sourceforge.net
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c
Message-ID:  <20051109185734.GO37350@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <28030.1131542973@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <26769408.1131540347713.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> <28030.1131542973@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:29:33PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <26769408.1131540347713.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net>, Sergey Babkin writes:
> 
> >>+> I'm sorry, but localization of messages of this caliber is a totally
> >>+> bogus concern which I intend to ignore 100%.
> >>
> >>Even then, this is quite annoying to see one communicate in two
> >>languages:
> >>
> >>	B&#322;&#261;d wywo&#322;ania mount(2): Invalid fspath
> >
> >I kind of feel that localization is evil to start with.
> >Especially when users from random countries start
> >asking questions about messages they receive, and
> >you can't understand the messages because you
> >don't know the language, and can't even search
> >for them easily in the code. Even when I do understand
> >the language I still hate the localized messages.
> 
> The way IBM tackles that is to put a unique message number at the
> start of each message.

The way Windows handles it is to give you a new error code if you
have a new kind of error.

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  <> green@FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
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