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Re: New ARI warning Sat Aug 14 01:53:52 UTC 2010


> Of above warnings, only first appears to be added by a recent patch of mine,
> while others were there all the time. That said, have we ever decided if MI
> should try to i18n its error messages? At least some of messages, like
> "Unable to read memory" above, can probably be shown to user -- except it's
> so generic as to be useless. Some messages, clearly, indicate frontend
> bugs and showing them to users, or l10n-ing, makes no sense.

For error messages, ISTM that the intent would have to have the error
message displayed verbatim by the IDE, no? In that case, it would be
better if it was translated than not.  Otherwise, we place the burden
of providing translations on the IDE, which I think is a bad idea.

-- 
Joel


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