Re: Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
> > Umm, even I (who think internationalization is a total waste of effort)
>
> I'm curious about this, could you elaborate a bit? Surely
> internationalization is a reality; in what sense you consider it a total
> waste?

Dmitry answered this better than I could: just because it is "reality"
doesn't make it right. There are many such examples: you could start with
the current US president. ;-)

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.

There clearly are exceptions: if you want to sell a word processor in Japan,
it probably has to handle their funny character set. Which is why I said IF
Internationalization is a requirement (hopefully it is not, but you don't
always get what you want).

                          Randy.