Translate error messages

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Any requests for particular languages, or should we just support all of
them? :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by crazybob...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2007 at 5:43

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This wouldn't make much sense w/o translating the user's guide and Javadocs, 
too.

Original comment by crazybob...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2007 at 5:44

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I can help translating user's guide (i have already started translating this
document) and error messages into Brazilian Portuguese. 

Original comment by danie...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2007 at 10:39

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this doesn't seem like a highly attainable goal.  we could put error codes on 
the
error messages so that a translated user's guide would be able to explain them 
in
multiple languages, but beyond that I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

Original comment by kevin...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2007 at 4:29

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Original comment by limpbizkit on 5 Jun 2008 at 6:18

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A lot of work for very little gain.  In my experience, translating error 
messages
leads to more trouble than good -- if code ever wants to programatically scan an
error message and take different steps depending on exactly what happened, 
localizing
the error makes this impossible.  Unless there's a very specific exception 
subclass
for every single kind of error, the only way to do this is through error message
inspection.

Original comment by sberlin on 2 May 2010 at 12:51

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