Laura Stewart wrote:
> *** (LS) Responses below
>
> On 6/7/06, David Van Couvering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> *** (LS) While I like to be polite too, we are not sitting down to tea
>> > with the users :-) It is more professional in technical
>> documentation to
>> > leave the "Please" out. Besides, the key is not to be polite, but to
>> > provide the information that users need to resolve the problem.
>>
>> Ah, I beg to differ. I think that users too often are treated too
>> brusquely in the way a system communicates with them.
We can handle this with the variant field of locales.
en_US_unix - Error 84
en_US_1960robot - Log directory {0} exists. Fix.
en_US_polite - Log directory {0} exists. The directory may belong to
another database. Please make sure the specified logDevice location is
correct.
en_US_youknowwho - Log directory {0} exists. Someone from Sun or IBM
should fix this for you.
en_UK_polite - I'm terribly sorry to disturb you, but the log directory
{0} exists, I'm sure it's my fault. Please don't worry about it, no, no,
really, it's not a problem.
en_UK_jeeves - <no error - a good butler fixes such issues>
Dan
(Sorry, bored in an airport)
