Re: [PATCH] Redirect on Error

At 13:05 26/11/2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote:

Derick, that's the price of usability. Open Source always suffered from that, and forever will if the usability will not be considered as one of the main benefits, especially for a programming language as PHP. I agree on 110% that it will be harder to maintain the code. I myself will never use any non-english errors in my PHP setups and will always spend precious minutes grepping for error code. But, this will benefit the whole project. It is not a stupid idea - it is "usability".

That's quite arguable, Maxim. I personally find error internationalized error messages as very annoying, and I have quite a bit of experience in that. Fact is, especially in a technical area such as PHP, lots of information is lost or gets degraded when you translate it. I'm sure that there are people who would prefer localized error messages, but my guess is that they won't be the majority of users. Zeev