From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 21:13:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132C316A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:13:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E57543D31 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:13:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torstenvl@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so8775wri for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:13:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=ZgLiMsd/Iaqwn/A2QA96eZh/bf3uDtpClUMt/i9PKjGMsb/3xqVvqWlN0Tsh8gZGzOBZQNVmHiD7kkZJQEXICQX+rwV+95Es0izI4H+u85XdllUeS+aJ1QcqlXauJBEyato2eeI6SI/su23yOXnaVhu1fGImtv9SYxw7mYzmW/k= Received: by 10.54.4.8 with SMTP id 8mr1174706wrd; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.22 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:13:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <126eac48050326131362fe4ee4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:13:35 +0100 From: Josh Ockert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <716205443.20050326221030@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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> Subject: Re: mot de passe root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Josh Ockert List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:13:38 -0000 On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:10:30 +0100, Anthony Atkielski 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.