Re: [Caml-list] error messages in multiple languages ?

[Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>]

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> I find that it makes it considerably easier to search for error messages

On this specific topic, I would be interested in having OCaml compiler
error messages numbered, just as warnings already are, precisely because it
makes it much easier to reference them (is robust to change of wording),
and for example look up a specific error in the manual for further
explanations -- we recently started doing this for warnings, see
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/comp.html#sec270 .



On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org>
wrote:

> It looks like people have already mentioned getttext.
>
> I want to add that OCaml already has an excellent gettext
> implementation.  No need to reinvent any wheels.
>
>   https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-gettext/
>
> We use it every day in libguestfs, an example picked at random
> (there are thousands more):
>
>   https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/
> input_libvirt.ml#L39
>
> Therefore you might think I'd be very exciting about having the OCaml
> compiler messages being localized.  That not so much.  I find that it
> makes it considerably easier to search for error messages, and also to
> help people, if they are in a single language.  It's for this reason
> that we don't translate debugging and other internal messages in our
> tools.  (But being an English native speaker it's a lot easier for me,
> so take this with a pinch of salt.)
>
> Rich.
>
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