Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Localizing software destabilizes it; localized versions always contain > more bugs (often very hard-to-find bugs) than original versions.
I fail to see how switching from one set of message strings files in a correctly written application would destabilize it. > Localized versions are a constant source of trouble. Even Windows, > which makes special provisions for localization, is still far more > bug-prone in non-English versions, and I always try to install > U.S.-English versions if I can get them. Oh, you're talking about Windows. Yes, there's been a lot of localization related trouble there. But then we're relatively safe from the secret brainfarts of Microsoft developers here. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
