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Date:Mon Mar 31 14:20:33 2000 
Subject:Re: Language dependent error messages 
From:jlc 
Volume-ID:1000331.07 

>> But, nowadays, I still wouldn't use error codes.
>
>I assume you mean by that that you would not have error codes


No. As I explained in an earlier post, I would use
the English text strings as the error codes (and the
key into the translation table). That way, graceful
failure is possible: if the translation is missing or
cannot be obtained, the "error code" still makes sense
in English.

>> This is so obvious, I wonder if it has already been done?
>
>Probably for many multi-language systems.


I was asking if it had already been done for poplog; I
already know it is a common technique for other software.

  --jlc