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[Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joshua Harlow wrote:
> So there is a question here that I don’t understand.
> 
> There a different levels of I18N, for say user facing error messages, or
> for other things I consider UI (horizon).
> 
> Those need to be I18N and all that. I think the larger part that I don’t
> understand is why the things that are not the above (log messages) are
> being internationalized.
> 
> So what level do we want to have ;) And what level is normal for people
> to expect (do systems like hadoop do I18N on there error messages, do
> other apache projects?)

I agree with you.

Documentation and user-facing interfaces should definitely support I18N.
That means Horizon, and (maybe) the Python client bindings.
Operators-facing log messages... not so much. By internationalizing them
we lose the ability to google for them, and I'm not convinced the
trade-off is favorable for that particular population.

If you come to the design summit and care about this, join us at the
"I18N in OpenStack" session.

Regards,

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack