On 28 April 2010 21:13, Arcadius <info_at_fedushin.ru> wrote:
> Oh, I guess your native language is English, so multi-language texts is not your problem.
Now that was a silly thing to say, and is hardly likely to increase
your chances of getting anything changed. FWIW Stefan's native
language is Swiss German, not English, although you wouldn't know it
from the mailing list.
> Every not-English developer knows that using 2 languages in his daily work is unavoidable...
> Of course a real pro knows English and is "lazy enough" to switch keyboard, and writes everything in English when possible. But some things closely associated with development like resource properties still remain in native language even for him.
>
> A simple scenario: programmer renames a native resource (f.e. corrects spelling) & stores result in repository.
> How will he describe his work in detail to TSVN-comment, not being warned by spell checker?
>
> Common rule is: non-English developer constantly uses 2 languages, English + his native.
> On one side of him stand native users & corporative rules, on the other - pure-English IT-entities.
Let's skip the generalizations about what "every non-English
programmer" does, because there is no general rule. And from that
point of view, maybe TSVN is wrong because it provides the tools to
help enforce log messages in one language, but doesn't help for people
who like to use 2 (or more) languages. It may be our rule, but we
don't need to force it on everyone.
>> Also, this would slow down the spell checking a lot, because every word would have to be checked twice with both the dictionaries kept in memory.
> - Modern computers are very fast. They cache disk files to accelerate loading. On the contrary comments are usually very small. I never noticed that spell checking takes any time.
I read the Mozilla thread that was referenced and it looks like
checking in all languages is not really a good solution either, unless
the languages are totally different (like English and Chinese or
Russian). For example there may be a spelling error in English, but
which happens to match a correct German word.
It may be worth adding the facility to select a language at commit
time, with the current methods providing the default.
Simon
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