[openbeos] Re: Back to the basics.
- From: "Steve Vallee" <svallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:16:05 -0800
Totally with you on this. When I dig inside an OS, I'm totally screwed if
the technicals informations are presented in french. It's sad, but
technically *I HATE* reading or getting technical informations about
computers and development in any other language than english. Ok for an
Office. Not Ok for low level.
-Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Back to the basics.
> Hmm, beside taking some more work, I don't really see the point in this.
> Your GrandMa won't dig into syslog I think, and people getting into it
> certainly know what they search for.
> Moreover if say the zzz unixish driver outputs "XXX", changing this to
"YYY"
> will only make it harder for "not-geek" users to find what is the problem
> searching on the net, since even translated docs mentions english error
> messages.
> I'd say we need first a driver to be able to localize it anyway :P
>
> En réponse à "Bruno G. Albuquerque" <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > > Are you nuts ?
> > > Device drivers are not the place for fancy things like localisation,
> > > there's already enough bugs that result in system corruption to avoid
> >
> > > adding
> > > ones =)
> > > Yes windows has everything translated even in the driver, again
> > > that's a reason
> > > to do like Windows.
> > > And even for driver names, maybe there could be a database or
> > > something
> > > (I mean a text file listing the translated names), so the user can
> > > understand
> > > what it's about, but anyway drivers shouldn't interact directly with
> >
> > > users.
> >
> > That's not what I mean. For instance erro messages returned by drivers
> >
> > that go to a log file or something like that should get localized. Even
> >
> > if for that the driver would have to be recompiled (so there would be
> > no need for runtime localization).
> >
> > -Bruno
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cynic, n.:
> > One who looks through rose-colored glasses with a jaundiced
> > eye.
> >
> >
> >
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