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[Kevin Stange]

Daniel Atallah wrote:
> 
> On Dec 3, 2007 10:11 AM, Stu Tomlinson <stu at nosnilmot.com
> <mailto:stu at nosnilmot.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 18:45 -0500, datallah at pidgin.im
>     <mailto:datallah at pidgin.im> wrote:
>     >
>     > 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).

The error messages themselves should definitely be in the user's locale
to allow them to try to undersand and fix the issue themselves.

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

We should print an error to the debug log as well using
purple_debug_error with the untranslated string, as we do for much of
the trace information, since that is more for developers, and not end-users.

Kevin

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