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Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Redirect on Error From: Alexander Wagner (wagner <email protected>)
Date: 11/25/02

On Monday 25 November 2002 21:55, Sascha Schumann wrote:
> > Whereas assuming that PHP users are too stupid to understand english is
> > not at all arrogant? :)
>
> Wrong, Sterling. Beginning PHP users might neither have
> formal education in computer science _nor_ foreign languages.

Perfectly true. Some people just lack education, or are too young or too old.

The average newbie:
- uses M$ Windows
- with a WAMP-all-in-one package, or, failing to know such things exist,
uploads to some free webspace for testing
- thinks PHP-Nuke is the high art of programming
- doesn't even know that there is such a thing as a manual

I happen to help these people rather often... there are a lot of them.
If you just put a translation online... believe me, they're never going to
find it. The people who will find it probably won't need it.

If you want these people to find this translation, you'd have to put the url
into every error-message.
And provide a way to change the root-url, so it can be downloaded

The strength of PHP is that, for some reason, it's so easy to use that even
people with no programming background at all use it, very often with a
complete lack of skill and a minimum of effort.
>From the perspective of newbies, translated error-messages are definately the
right thing (tm). If you want them to find the translation, you have to
present it in a way that they cannot possibly miss it.

regards
Wagner 

-- 
codito ergo sum

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