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From: "Harald Korneliussen" <vintermann@gmail.com>
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On 24 Jan, 22:03, "Randy Brukardt" <r...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> It depends on the application, of course, but for many things (like compiler
> error messages), attempts to localize just make things more confusing. Most
> important stuff in the world is in English these days -- that's the reality,
> and forcing localization of that is counterproductive.
>
They said that about French as well not all that long ago. How much 
effort is reduplicated because some russian statistician's work, or 
perhaps a chinese computer scientist's, is never adequately 
translated? Once China gets more industrialised (and if the US/Britain 
should become less important for some reason), things may change even 
within our lifetimes. Assuming that english will always be the user 
interface language is as silly as assuming dates can always be stored 
in a 16-bit int or something.