Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:13:35 +0100 From: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mot de passe root Message-ID: <126eac48050326131362fe4ee4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <716205443.20050326221030@wanadoo.fr> References: <1334553342.20050325220228@wanadoo.fr> <86psxmiyle.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> <86710893.20050326135216@wanadoo.fr> <20050326151125.GA90180@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <968029093.20050326192627@wanadoo.fr> <126eac48050326111860f241c1@mail.gmail.com> <716205443.20050326221030@wanadoo.fr>
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:10:30 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Josh Ockert writes: >=20 > > There's no reason to think that string replacement would cause more > > bugs in the technical sense; however, a bad translation might > > contribute to a higher frequency of user error. >=20 > Windows is better adapted to localization than most operating systems, > because it isolates resources like strings in a way that facilitates > keeping them independent of code. Nevertheless, problems arise. Strings > often grow much longer when translated. Unicode poses special problems. > Buffer overflows are more likely. Formatting messages with variable > fields gets more complex and difficult and harder to debug. And patches > and fixes take longer to get for localized versions; dumps generated in > localized versions are harder to debug, since everything has moved. The > list goes on and on. >=20 > All of these problems are multipled a thousandfold in UNIX and most > other operating systems, where almost all language information is > hard-coded directly into the software. >=20 > Localization makes sense for ordinary end users, but not for IT > professionals. They are vastly better off working in English. >=20 > -- > Anthony >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 Oh I agree. Actually, my partner in my duo linguistique at the Centre de Linguistique Appliqu=E9e (in Besan=E7on) is an IT guy who wants to improve his English.
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