Re: Translating PHP error messages (fwd)

I personally don't like multi-lingual support. I think software developers all over the world pretty much have to learn English in order to get around so I think they can handle English PHP error messages. It also makes it harder for us to debug if they send us foreign language error messages. We'll need to cross reference them (with an error#) which is yet another step to not replying right away but having to go and open a file. Sucky IMO. Andi At 12:23 PM 12/19/00 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

I think this is a worthwhile thing to pursue. If we do it at compile-time as suggested then we won't have any performance issues. I think a run-time solution might be more useful though although it would be a bit slower. Speed of printing errors and warnings isn't really critical. -Rasmus ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:42:02 +0100 From: Damien Seguy <dams@php.net> To: rasmus@linuxcare.com, bibi@php.net Subject: Translating PHP error messages Hi Rasmus, I have noticed that all the error messages are in English. I think it could be interesting for all to be able to build a PHP version with localized error messages. This is the way I was thinking to build it: 1. For every php_error() function call, replace the second argument (which is a constant) with a #define 2. Gather all #define statements in one file called <langage>.h somewhere (I really dont know where to put those files) 3. Add a compilation directive (something like --lang=<langage>) to let the user choose the langage he wants I know this is a huge work (I've counted 1739 distincts call to php_error) to go through every files to modify the php_error() function calls. With little effort, PHP will become more user-friendly and speak in everyone's own language. So let me know what you are thinking about this project, or if it is already started. I also wonder who (where) is the best to be asked for. I understand that PHP is a community effort, I'd like to take my share, but without pissing everyone off. Can you help me help you? Best regards Ghislain and Damien Seguy. http://www.nexen.net/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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