On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:57:54AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Scott, the above was obiously humor but it then confuses my mind..:-) > > > Do you actually agree with the messages better being *not* > > > translatable or do you prefer keeping the current situation? > > > > > It's an interesting question, certainly; to my mind I don't think it's > > any scarier to dump a scary english message or a scary french one. The > > added advantage to translating them is that the user might have the > > skill to know what's going wrong and fix it, the disadvantage is that I > > have to un-translate them when the error reports come in. In my mind, the question is not whether we will scary the user or not, but whether we will scary the translator or not. I agree with Eddy, we should come up with a system saying a nice translated (but fixed) text to the user, alongside with a geek informative (untranslated) message. If the dude in front of the keyboard knows how to help, this involves speaking english, which remains the development language. If he has no idea of what's going on, he don't need the details about how things screwed up. Some help about how to work around could help, but if it's a bug, we cannot provide such an information beforehand. It would be something like: <<<<<<<<<< An internal error occured in dpkg. Please report the issue to the debian BTS if you can, alongside with any relevant information such as what you did to reach this error and the detail of the issue indicated below. If you know how to reproduce the issue, please make sure to indicate it in your report. More information about reporting bugs against dpkg: http://www.dpkg.org/how_to_report Detail of the problem: Cannot stat /var/lib/dpkg/status >>>>>>>>>> Which would be translated in french to: <<<<<<<<<< Une erreur interne s'est produite dans dpkg. Merci de faire un rapport d'anomalie (en anglais) dans système de suivi des bugs (BTS) Debian [...] Plus d'informations sur la façon de rapporter des anomalies à propos de dpkg: http://www.dpkg.org/how_to_report Détail du problème: Cannot stat /var/lib/dpkg/status >>>>>>>>>> Bye, Mt.
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