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"Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote in message
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> In my main project at work, it is much easier to format the messages
> at the level where the relevant information is available.

Internationalization is all about taking stuff that should be easy and
making it much harder. ;-)

Seriously, the only practical way to Internationalize a component library is
to remove all messages from it. One could argue that Ada fails miserably
here, because the strings that get attached to exceptions are probably in
English. (Look at the Gnat runtime for an obvious example of the problem.)
OTOH, its somewhat of a bogus argument, as no application should be
presenting messages from the Ada runtime to users in the first place. (Or,
at least, only as a last resort when all else has failed.)

                         Randy.