Re: [HACKERS] error messages not only English

On Tue, 26 May 1998, David Gould wrote:

> Vadim writes:
> > Andreas Zeugswetter wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyway, we are still missing the first step in this direction: enumerate ERROR messages.
> >
> > BTW, are error codes in standard ?
>
> Some are. There is also a format for standard severity levels etc.
>
> On the internationalized message topic, how about storing all the messages
> in a text file. This file would be opened (but not read) at startup by each
> backend (and the postmaster). To change languages, just open a different
> file. ELOG would scan the message file to get the message text corresponding
> to an errog code. Since reading a pre-opened text file does not depend on
> much of the system working, it should work even in the catastrophic cases.

Do you want me to post a brief outline on how Java does this? It uses
plain text files to handle internationalized messages, and can handle
regional dialects as well?

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