From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
To: aelder@sgi.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [xfsprogs]: Don't translate command name.
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 07:22:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105040722.21080.arekm@maven.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304458906.9841.2.camel@doink>
On Tuesday 03 of May 2011, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:07 +0200, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> > Command names should never be translated. Currently there is
> > 'xfs_quota -x -c "project"...' in one locale (C) while
> > 'xfs_quota -x -c "projekt"...' in another (pl_PL).
>
> I haven't looked at this closely yet, but it looks
> pretty straightforward.
>
> I have tried to do a little research on localization
> though, so I'm a little better informed. I accept
> your statement that command names should never be
> translated, but is that a well-known convention?
It isn't written anywhere as a "rule" afaik. I simply "makes sense". We don't
want documentation to be valid only for C/en_US locale. We want scripts that
use xfs tools to be portable and not locale dependant etc, etc.
There are cases when translating commands makes sense - MUDs or some text
based games and surely not admin tools.
> Thanks.
>
> -Alex
>
> > Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 9:07 [PATCH] [xfsprogs]: Don't translate command name Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-05-03 21:41 ` Alex Elder
2011-05-04 5:22 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz [this message]
2011-05-10 21:41 ` Alex Elder
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