🚀 go-pugleaf

Larry Childs <Larry_Childs@novell.com> writes:

> Who can tell me their policies and practices for translating Abend
> messages (i.e. "abnormal end" messages that come up when the program
> crashes)?

The meaning of the message is not the only issue. IMO, the point of
localizing a program is to make users feel comfortable.  Any
unintelligible message seems to provoke a feeling of insecurity, or even
guilt ("I must have done something really wrong if this appears in
[English|numbers]").  I suppose users like to describe the problem in a
way that doesn't make the technician look like a wizard and the machine
his beast, even if they don't understand what they are saying.

Regards,

Armando Ramos
Clerval Edocs, EC