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One annoying issue with translated apps the author doesn't cover is "googlability", the fact that we often need to google an error message or menu label in orde
by emilecantin 5y ago
One annoying issue with translated apps the author doesn't cover is "googlability", the fact that we often need to google an error message or menu label in order to solve a problem. This leads to a lot of bilingual people running their software in English just in case they need to paste an error message into a search engine.
- copperx 5y agoYes. Having unique error codes should be a best practice with translated apps.
- bartvk 5y agoI've always felt that a popup with an error code should have a "search the web for this code" button.
- conductr 5y agoThat’s where “error code” essentially comes from, an actual code you could look up in a manual. Errors have evolved to be more of “error messages” which then have grammar, word choice, and a million other concerns.
- fomine3 5y agoI wonder why message code culture disappeared now.
- maple3142 5y agoTotally agrees. FireFox devtools UI language is your browser language, and the error messages are also translated. A really annoying thing is there doesn't seem to have an easy way to only switch devtool language to English. On the other way, Chromium devtools doesn't even have translations so it doesn't have this problem. And the new Edge (Chromium) translates the devtool by default, but there is an option allowing you to switch back to English in devtool only.