On Вск, 2006-06-11 at 02:16 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:11:50 +0200
> Jan Kundrát <jkt@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > b) Localization of Gentoo-developed applications (portage,
> > gentoolkit,...) including their manpages
> 
> I don't really like this one. Documentation, sure, but for the tools
> themselves I think it could cause more problems than actually help.

IIUYC there are tree problems with localized portage tools: 1) for users
such bug reports are hard to search 2) for devs it's hard to read
localized bug reports 3) "Overtranslation" for all it's hard to
understand. Right?

1,2): While generally I agree that output of build process should be in
"C" locale at least the following line should be translated on all
possible languages:
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.

Everybody will benefit from translation of this message. ;)

3) Bad translation is "just another bug" that should be fixed. Nothing
in reality can be done without errors. But have this stoped anybody?

Peter.