Re: Should the text in configuration files be translated?
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:40:09PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 04:55:17PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:42:51PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > > Do you mean pros of setting root's locale to "C" ?
> > Yes, exactly.
>
> the only one I can think of is the translated messages being
> inaccurate/wrong/misleading/too poorly translated. But I guess that if one
> chooses to do an install in his/her mother tongue, he/she wants the root's
> environment localized as well.
Won't there be problems with upgrades? I mean, sure, dpkg will notice and
prompt, but it'll be awfully hard to deal with prompts on every single
conffile every time you upgrade, and difficult to impossible to tell where
the real changes that you need to make are among the noise.
-- Nathaniel
--
But suppose I am not willing to claim that. For in fact pianos are heavy,
and very few persons can carry a piano all by themselves.
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