On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:16, Branko Èibej wrote:
> This whole conversation is interesting, but beside the point. The
> accepted solution in situations like this is that the server sends a
> structured message in some common language (usually english), and the
> client is responsible for translating it, and if it cannot, it shows the
> original. The beauty of gettext is that you don't have to use obscure
> message codes.
I can understand the appeal to this to some extent, but I'm a little
tired of people using the word "structured" as if it actually means
something by itself. It's a little like saying, "we should cut taxes
and spending," without saying what spending cuts you want to make; it
sounds good on the face of it, but when you get into the details, maybe
not so many people would agree.
Our error messages (the specific ones, not the generic ones) are format
strings with some text substituted in for pathnames and rev numbers and
whatnot. Once the text is subbed in, gettext can no longer look up the
message, because it doesn't know what part is variant. How can we
remedy this without building a full-blown RPC marshalling system into
our error structures?
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Received on Thu Apr 1 04:45:36 2004