Re: SRFI 198 Foreign Interface Errors: abusing alists for fun and non-profit Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (17 Jul 2020 17:35 UTC)
Interaction of gettext and SRFI 198's localization feature Lassi Kortela (26 Jul 2020 21:21 UTC)

Re: SRFI 198 Foreign Interface Errors: abusing alists for fun and non-profit Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 17 Jul 2020 17:35 UTC

Am Fr., 17. Juli 2020 um 19:22 Uhr schrieb Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io>:

> I can try to find some existing ones for both languages. Localized error
> messages can be quite amusing since the terminology may not be properly
> established in the target language and the translations are often done
> by writers who don't grasp the tech at that level of detail.

I don't like localized error messages for another reason. When you
don't know what to do with the error message (say, a compiler warning)
and you search the web for it, it works best if everyone uses the same
search term and not some localized version. :)