[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, clemos wrote:

> do you imagine dealing with stuff like
> "I got a problem using "créerunnomdefichier"
> - do you mean : "machedateiname"?
> - oh yeah I mean : "makefilename"! "

Either the original name would be available as a tooltip, or the 
translated name would be available as a tooltip, depending on translation 
settings.

> "you should copy-paste your console output.
> - ok, it's here :
> objet créerunnomdefichier
> ... n'a pas pu créer.
> - wtf  !!!???"

Can't do anything about that... people routinely post GCC error messages 
in German and French on public forums and keep on using localized GCC no 
matter what.

> I agree with translating comments in help patches and stuff like that,
> but translating object names (which are actually keywords) in my opinion
> would really be annoying for the community.

It depends on how it is handled.

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