Re: String translation

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]

ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Actually, I'm wondering whether it would be a good idea since some
> messages have been used in programs as error condition descriptions,
> most notably in the test suite, because they provide more information
> that just the `throw' key.  Thus, translating error messages may have
> undesirable side effects.
>
> OTOH, we could try too look at these exceptions whose messages are used
> in programs and try to rework them so that programs don't have to rely
> on messages to understand what's going on.  That could only be done in
> HEAD, though, and we could hardly avoid the introduction of
> incompatibilities, I think.

Agreed (with all points).  In principle, I think that it would be nice
to start translating Guile, and that we should fix exception
information so that programs don't have to rely on particular English
text.

Personally, though, I already have enough stuff going on at the
moment, so I don't plan to investigate this any further myself for
now.

Regards,
        Neil