> Didn't you ever grep a text document written in a language other than English?
Yes but it was for humans originally? Not for machine processing.
> Not to mention the folks who deliberately set LANG so that their compiler and everything else will give them localized error messages.
The horror! Who even works on translations for compiler error messages ?!?
It makes absolutely no sense!
Next they'll want to localize programming language keywords. I wonder how well that will work at this current project of mine that has people native to 3 countries, none english speaking ...
How old? I'm old enough that my first Linux experience included a stack of floppy disks and recompiling a 0.9x kernel in late high school, and my first c++ program was done with Borland C++ 3.1. It never occured to me to look for a localized UI for either of them.
Yes but it was for humans originally? Not for machine processing.
> Not to mention the folks who deliberately set LANG so that their compiler and everything else will give them localized error messages.
The horror! Who even works on translations for compiler error messages ?!? It makes absolutely no sense!
Next they'll want to localize programming language keywords. I wonder how well that will work at this current project of mine that has people native to 3 countries, none english speaking ...