Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Translated error messages.

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Carsten Klapp schrieb:
> Jeff raised an important problem about difficulty dealing with translated
> error messages, I'd like to get some feedback from the group.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree, many or all of the php, database, and non-wiki
> error messages should revert back to english only.

yes,
critical errors must be english. esp. dealing with gettext and the db.
for warnings i'm not so sure.
for user hints i'm for translated versions.

> I am willing to do the changes, but does anyone have any comments first?
> Or any concerns about which specific errors should be english only and
> which can be translated?
> 
> Carsten
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Jeff Dairiki <da...@da...>
> Date: Tue Jan 22, 2002  11:32:51  am America/Montreal
> To: "Carsten Klapp" <car...@ma...>
> Subject: Translated error messages.
> 
> Okay, I've found the problem with gettextifying all the error messages:
>   I can't read them.  I've found a fatal error which only occurs when
> LANG=de, but boy is it a pain to have to go untranslate it.
> 
> I really think we ought to leave the debugging output in English:
>    * Less translation.
>    * The errors which PHP generates are always in English (so far as I know)
> .
>    * Anyone capable of doing anything about the errors (e.g. PHP hacking)
>      can probably deal with English at that level.

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