[GRASS5] one more localization question

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Mon Jun 13 04:43:41 EDT 2005


Brad Douglas wrote:

> Should output written to history files be localized?  eg:
> 
> sprintf(hist.edhist[0], "some text");
> sprintf (hist.datsrc_1, "Group/subgroup: %s/%s", group, subgroup);
> hist.edlinecnt = 1;
> G_write_history (name, &hist);
> ...
> 
> I would think that these should be localized, but I defer to the list to
> make certain.

It's debatable.

Ideally you would be able to control the language used for files
separately to the language used for user interaction.

In the absence of such separation, I would lean towards not localising
file contents.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>




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