Re: [eclipse-dev] translating messages in the log?

[Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Konrad

We do not translate exceptions that are not going to be shown to the user. 
The error log is kind of a special case as it a view on your .log file 
which is really not part of an Eclipse users workflow (it is a tool geared 
more to developers). 

Also, the viritual machine does not translate it's exceptions either.  The 
best we could do even if we were to change this policy would be a half 
measure because of this.

Tod





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Hi,

Do we have a guide line in Eclipse clarifying/suggesting whether messages
logged to Eclipse log must/should/should not/must not be translated?

I seem to recall that we use to translate all messages except the debug
output, and it was relaxed later that we should but do not have to.
Recently a bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=67872 has 
been
opened and John commented that we should generally not translate log
messages.  From the log we see Help, PDE, Team do translate their logged
messages.

Personally I think the messages should be translated, especially that 
users
can see them in the log view, and they are really the first line of 
support
for themselves.

Konrad Kolosowski
Eclipse Help System

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