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Re:FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity by bombcar on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:57AM (#27171330)
It’s much worse now - anyone who uses any program that supports localized error messages should know by now to switch to English to have a hope of googling the problem.

I suppose unique error codes could help here.

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Re:FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity by ghoward on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:03AM (#27173086)
Boy, am I glad for your comment. I hadn't even thought of this, but now, I think I will use unique error codes for this reason.
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Re:FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity by WalterBright on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:48PM (#27176005)
> unique error codes

Today those are not necessary. With how good search is these days, what works great are crafting the message strings so they are search friendly.

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Re:FLOSS and Linguistic Diversity by Viliam1234 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @03:21PM (#27176224)
Together with bad translations it means that there are error messages that make zero sense and you can't find help online. Indeed, the most important localization feature is turning this off.
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