Re: [PATCH] Redirect on Error
| From: | Maxim Maletsky | Date: | Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:03:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Redirect on Error | ||
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:18:32 +0100 (CET) Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Sascha Schumann wrote:
>
> > Frankly, so far the discussion has been primarily
> > developer-focused, which is not too surprising. The
> > developers are rarely exposed to support requests from
> > newbies in various non-English forums.
>
> Thank god not; would you like to see your bugreports in french, or
> hebrew or finnish? If the error message is in a foreign language, people
> are going to report bugs in that language too, and I dont think QA is
> waiting for that. Even with an error number attached is going to be
> annoying; I myself would not even bother.
>
> >
> > If PHP is supposed to become easier to use, then native
> > language error messages would be a big hit.
>
> Who says that PHP needs to be even easier then it already is? I think
> with the millions of users there are we're doing pretty okay I'd say.
This can be easily avoided. When I have to report an Oracle error in
Italian on an English page, I simply type the error code. We need to
introduce error codes in PHP, that would really solve the trouble.
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Maxim Maletsky
maxim@php.net