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Localized error messages are detrimental to solving the problem as googling the error message in a different language will prevent you from finding a solution in the main language.


In compilers it's not uncommon to output an error code in addition to the human readable message. That allows you to google independent of language.

Of course if you turn on localized error messages you might actually prefer results in your own language.


This sounds like it's coming from someone who has never had to help relatives fix their broken Windows PCs localized in a language spoken by only a few million people.




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