Re: Fractured english in muLinux

From: jeremy@visi.com
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 17:52:10 CET


On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:37:38PM +0100, Kochenburger Andreas wrote:

> It is natural to suspect that somebody who neglects the user
> interface might also be sloppy within the software.

Oddly enough, I have often found the opposite. The more polished
the user-interface, the more questionable the stability of the
software (Windows NT, Netscape, MS Office, et al. as opposed to:
Unix, MVS, et al). As always, your mileage might vary ;)

> Perhaps just the stable mulinux releases could be "filtered"
> (input: work language; output: English as should be) by someone.
> Once done, "filtering" would be just the deltas thereafter,
> i.e. new or modified scripts and progs (if any).

If we are going to lean to this, I think we should keep the old
messages, and have a prompt at the beginning--how much more
space can the original text messages take? Is it enough to make
this sort of thing disadvantageous?

Jeremy

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