Damages i18n has done?
Damages i18n has done?
Posted Dec 10, 2024 11:18 UTC (Tue) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)In reply to: Damages i18n has done? by Cyberax
Parent article: Debian opens a can of username worms
The existence of automated translators that badly translate the message without anyone who speaks the language ever looking at it to see if it makes sense is half of the problem because reversing that nonsense-translation to look up the actual error message or communicate with the developers about it is often not possible or unreasonably hard.
Posted Dec 11, 2024 6:33 UTC (Wed)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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I maintain a couple of small projects, and I actually communicated with Arabic speakers via a translator.
Damages i18n has done?
Again, realistically ChatGPT and Google will provide you enough context. And it's not like error messages are James Joyce's poems, they are typically very formulaic.