From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 21:22:53 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 72B7D16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:22:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vs3.bgnett.no (vs3.bgnett.no [194.54.96.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B686543D2F for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:22:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) Received: from amidala.datadok.no.bgnett.no ([194.54.107.19]) by vs3.bgnett.no (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j2QLMZBM039816 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:22:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from peter@bgnett.no) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <968029093.20050326192627@wanadoo.fr> From: peter@bgnett.no (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:20:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <968029093.20050326192627@wanadoo.fr> (Anthony Atkielski's message of "Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:26:27 +0100") Message-ID: <86d5tmkst7.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-bgnett.no-virusscanner: Found to be clean X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mot de passe root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 21:22:53 -0000 Anthony Atkielski writes: > Localizing software destabilizes it; localized versions always contain > more bugs (often very hard-to-find bugs) than original versions. I fail to see how switching from one set of message strings files in a correctly written application would destabilize it. > Localized versions are a constant source of trouble. Even Windows, > which makes special provisions for localization, is still far more > bug-prone in non-English versions, and I always try to install > U.S.-English versions if I can get them. Oh, you're talking about Windows. Yes, there's been a lot of localization related trouble there. But then we're relatively safe from the secret brainfarts of Microsoft developers here. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"