Re: "Invalid byte sequence" message

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 23:37, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>wrote:

> >>
> >
> > I disagree. Any system that offers to write my messages in French should
> do
> > so correctly, *especially* if it's the default.
> >
>
> >> Any production server should have lc_messages set to C.
> Yeah. There are three main issues with translated messages:
>
> * Try searching anything on Google with french messages. You'll be
> lucky if you find something, and you'll get billions of results in
> english.
>

Chicken and egg. The more we discourage localized messages, the less
information there will be about them. Why even bother translating?

> * Try asking something in the mailing lists with french messages. The
> first answer will be: get us the english messages.
>

Even on the French mailing list? Again, I see this as a problem to be
solved, not avoided.

> * Try using any log parser (like pgfouine) with french messages. It
> won't work (even with this tool, written by a french guy).
>

So you've succeeded in making an argument for improving that tool :-)