im.pidgin.pidgin: 87a81ecce720018f2f6c6d2983c0259ae3c88814

Daniel Atallah daniel.atallah at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 10:46:00 EST 2007


On Dec 3, 2007 10:11 AM, Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 18:45 -0500, datallah at pidgin.im wrote:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Revision: 87a81ecce720018f2f6c6d2983c0259ae3c88814
> > Ancestor: 5865eb4a45b2c059f8cd82ebd88bcca28ec72bd7
> > Author: datallah at pidgin.im
> > Date: 2007-11-26T23:39:42
> > Branch: im.pidgin.pidgin
> >
> > Modified files:
> >         libpurple/win32/libc_interface.c
> >
> > ChangeLog:
> >
> > Better error messages for common Winsock errors. This was Kevin's
> wonderful idea.
>
> I agree this is wonerful as far as display to the end user is concerned,
> but these are now going to be translated making it much harder to spot
> them in debug logs.


I agree with your concern and my initial thought was that these shouldn't be
translated, however strerror() is supposed to produce locale strings (and
hopefully having translated errors will better allow people to understand
what is going wrong).

Do you have an idea of how we can improve the situation?

-D
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