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Juergen Brendel (jbrendel) wrote:
> I noticed that we have the occasional use of _("...") to be able to internationalize/translate various messages in the system.
> 
> Is this really necessary? I don't see the need to internationalize the messages produced by a highly technical system such as OpenStack. Firstly, proper internationalization is quite tricky and often requires additional annotations in the code in order to get it right.
> [...]

This question now surfaces on the dev mailing-list every two weeks :)

Please read my last answer on the subject (dated Nov 30, 2012):
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-November/003562.html

any maybe follow-up on that thread.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack