2012/2/16 newsgroups.mail2@stefanbaur.de <newsgroups.mail2@stefanbaur.de>
Am 16.02.2012 08:44, schrieb Daniel Lindgren:
Doing error number bookkeeping, I guess I won't become a fan of... Hmmm...
I'm also a "less used" language user and I've had the exact same idea as Terje. Troubleshooting (i e googling) error messages in Swedish is rarely succesful, you pretty much have to translate them to english - with varying success - to get any hits at all.
If all error messages included an error code/number it would simplify things a lot.
I don't think numbering will help that much. I mean, googling for "42" will turn up a lot of answers, but not necessarily the one you're looking for. ;-)
I didn't propose that, my suggestion was to use a code-scheme like this:
"[x2go-1234568]"
Searching on that specific string would give unique and accurate results. The concept of error-codes is well know, and is also a part of the error message at hand.
I'd suggest an option to display the English error message, either by
hovering the mouse over the translated error message or by clicking a button.
I'm no developer so I can't tell if that would require unsubstantial changes to the code, or not, but it sounds to me like it would, but I see your point.
The easiest way, though, as it wouldn't require changing actual code, would
be to provide the translation file in a human-readable (and -searchable) form on the X2Go homepage or within the x2goclient installation package.
I understand, then the user would have to use the results found by the initial search and then translate his/hers error message into another language and search for the results. It helps somewhat, but in my view it could be done better with error-codes.
A simple way of achieving this is to use a simple hierarchy of codes - divide series of codes up and allocate different series to different code-parts/files and insert the numbers (incrementally) into the error messages/strings. This way, the translator would keep the error-code in the translated message. If one sets aside big enough series it would be easy to add new, and overlooked messages wouldn't present any problem; just pick the next available number in the allocated series of numbers. Another way of doing this, would be to just pick a new available series of numbers when one has been used up.
Example: [x2go-000000 --> 000099] = X2Goclient [x2go-000100 --> 000199] = Pyhoca-GUI
and so on.
Regards, Terje