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[Eric Windisch <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josh, you raise an interesting point. This also affects the ability to search on these terms. On the other hand, having log messages in a language that the user doesn't understand will require those users to seek assistance when they might otherwise be able to solve the problems themselves.

It might be an interesting exercise to provide log messages in two languages (one always being English), if we don't simply standardize on English.

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Eric Windisch


On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:

> Question on i8ln? Hi all,
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> I was just wondering if I could get clarification on something I never understood related to i8ln.
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> In nova HACKING.rst there is a line that mentions how log messages should be using gettext for i8ln.
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> Is it common in other companies to attempt to internationalize log messages?  
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> I’ve seen this throughout the different openstack code and never quite understood why.
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> I can understand horizon being internationalized, but debugging/error/warning (logging) messages? Isn’t that meant to be read by a developer, who will most likely understand english (to some degree).
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> ??
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> -Josh
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