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Re: localisation in system wide daemons



Hi!

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 03:27 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:33:20PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> >
> > I can't find anything about this in the policy but to me it 
> > doesnt make sense to use a locale if you dont want it for 
> > some programs.
> 
> Why would you *not* want a locale? If the program has l10n support and it
> provides messages (even in a non-interactive way) there's chances some users
> will benefit from the translated messages.

In log files, localized messages may hurt more, than what gain with it.

For example some (semi)automatic log analyzing programs couldn't (and I
think don't want to) handle localized log messages.



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