From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 13:29:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B639116A463; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:29:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [130.225.244.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E27643D55; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:29:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (unknown [192.168.48.2]) by phk.freebsd.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F649BC84; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:29:33 +0000 (UTC) To: babkin@users.sf.net From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:45:47 CST." <26769408.1131540347713.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:29:33 +0100 Message-ID: <28030.1131542973@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: Craig Rodrigues , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_mount.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:29:38 -0000 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: >> >> Błąd wywołania 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.