On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 23:37, Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info>wrote:
> >> > > > > I disagree. Any system that offers to write my messages in French should > do > > so correctly, *especially* if it's the default. > > > > >> Any production server should have lc_messages set to C. > Yeah. There are three main issues with translated messages: > > * Try searching anything on Google with french messages. You'll be > lucky if you find something, and you'll get billions of results in > english. > Chicken and egg. The more we discourage localized messages, the less information there will be about them. Why even bother translating? > * Try asking something in the mailing lists with french messages. The > first answer will be: get us the english messages. > Even on the French mailing list? Again, I see this as a problem to be solved, not avoided. > * Try using any log parser (like pgfouine) with french messages. It > won't work (even with this tool, written by a french guy). > So you've succeeded in making an argument for improving that tool :-)
