Re: glib (2.0) fixes and darwin porting

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Alexander Larsson <alla lysator liu se> writes:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Tim Janik wrote:
> > ..., and error messages shouldn't be _() getetextified.
> 
> They shouldn't? Why not?

I think our policy here is that:

 - Error messages that would be seen by a user under normal operation
   should be translated.

 - Error messages that indicate a broken program should not be translated.

In general, I don't think translating error messages that get printed
to standard error is a big priority; in the normal mode of operation
of GTK+, the user doesn't see the standard error output at all.

But error messages that are passed back to the program so that they
could be displayed in a dialog box should definitely be translated.

Regards,
                                        Owen