[haiku-development] Re: Localizing CLI apps

"Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -- Axel Dörfler, on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:17:49 +0100:
> > "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Just out of interest, is it planned and is there a procedure to
> > > also
> > > localize CLI apps like lsindex, mkindex etc., i.e. at least Haiku-
> > > specific commands?
> > I hope not. Localizing CLI apps is just a bad idea, and I would be
> > very much against introducing this to Haiku.
> It's not the options or the output that I was thinking about, but the
> --help "Usage" screens. I'm looking into the Index chapter of the
> userguide for translation ATM, and naturally everything's English...

While that might look inconsistent, it would at least make a bit sense
to do it this way.

Bye,
   Axel.

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