[haiku-commits] Re: r40298 - in haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/translators: bmp ico jpeg

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:07:01 +0100 (MET)

Oliver Tappe<zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 27.01.2011 00:40, schrieb Alex Wilson:
> [ ... ]
> > > I don't think these strings need to be localized. It's especially
> > > silly to have people translating things like "hmm... i don't know
> > > really :(" .
[...]
> Hm, I tend to disagree: If that's indeed debug output, it shouldn't be sent
> to stderr in the first place, as that's likely to make it appear in Terminal
> (sending the output to syslog would be better in this case).
> But, IMHO, these strings look like plain error messages, which are just part
> of a program's UI and should thus be localized.

I'm a bit torn on the particular issue (ie. translators), but I pretty much 
agree with Oliver FWIW.

Bye,
   Axel.


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