Re: Translating PHP error messages (fwd)

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > 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. It might prove useful to research what other projects have already achieved in this area. FreeBSD is currently in the process of implementing an AIX-like error system for their kernel which uses message catalogues and unique error numbers. Here is a point to start with: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=228673+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-current/20001022.freebsd-current - Sascha