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[彭勇 <ppyy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2012/5/1 Andrew Hutchings <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi 彭勇,
>
> On 01/05/12 03:38, 彭勇 wrote:
> > the log messages of OpenStack are i18n now.
> >
> > i propose to use english only log messages:
> >
> > 1. if any one have problem, they can shared with others more easy.
> > he can search english message, and send message to maillist.
> > if the log message is i18n, a Chinese version message can't shared to
> > Japanese.
> >
> > 2. if we have i18n log message, it's hard to update log message. we
> > should update every localization version of message.
>
> This was all actually covered in the i18n talk at the developer's summit:
>
> http://etherpad.openstack.org/FolsomI18N
>
> The information in there says "mailing list says no, feedback from
> session says yes (especially requested by operators in china) - need a
> vote? compare to apache projects..."


we are guys in China. we have a openstack group more than 500 members.

we can promote a vote for this

>
>
> I do also remember a suggestion of translated error messages and a
> common error code (such as NOV1234 I guess?) to use in places such as a
> Google search (such as MySQL does).  You could then search for the
> translated error message or the code if you feel your language skills
> are good enough to get multi-lingual results.


Oracle handle error message this way, for example:

ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded

it's hard to maintain multi-lingual log message for open source project.


>
>
> Since we are going to be reworking i18n very soon I suspect feedback
> would be welcome.
>
> Kind Regards
> --
> Andrew Hutchings - LinuxJedi - http://www.linuxjedi.co.uk/
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彭勇 (Peng Yong)