On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:49:32PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >> There's a few coding style guidelines we've kind of informally agreed upon
> >> wrt to libvirt patches, and perhaps more that we ought to make decisions
> >> on.
> >> For the benefit of people sending patches I reckon its worth writing these
> >> down. So I'm attaching a proposed doc 'HACKING' in which we can detail the
> >> guidelines. And yes, we don't uniformly comply with these guidelines in
> >> all places....all the more reason to list them & fix cases where we don't
> >> comply :-)
> >
> > 5. Ensure any user visible strings are marked for translation
> >
> > eg wrap all strings with _(...)
> >
> > virXendError(xend, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
> > _("domain information incomplete, missing domid"));
> >
> > Translating error messages is a bad idea: (1) Naive users ignore error
> > messages anyway. (2) It makes the error message much less useful when
> > doing an internet search for solutions. (3) If an error message is
> > posted to this list, it's much less useful if it isn't in English.
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> I've always heard that support for translatable diagnostics
> is an important feature.
>
> While I'm no UI/internationalization expert, I would have thought that
> less-savvy users would need the messages more than others.
>
> If a user is taking the time to report a bug to an English-speaking list
> and to include a precise diagnostic, they're probably clueful enough to
> translate any such message for us. At worst, since we have the .po
> files, we can look up the translation manually -- or just use an online
> translator.
If you look at glibc - all the strerror() stuff is translated, and we feed
that into our own error messages. So if we didn't translate our own, we'd
be giving users error messages which contain a mix of englissh and translated
stuff. Our users have been very proactive about providing translations
for our existing error messages, which suggests the translations are indeed
important to them.
Dan.
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