[Openvas-discuss] Security language is english !?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 18:05, Thomas Reinke wrote:
> > So, I'd be interested in your opinion/thoughts on whether we should
> > remove any of the Server-side localization support for NASL scripts ....
> > ?
>
> While I've been a fan of localization support (given our environment,
> we often deal with more casual, less security oriented individuals
> who may not have a great working knowledge of English),
> I've NOT been a fan of doing it in the server itself.
>
> In my mind it doesn't make sense for the simple reason that if you
> take days and weeks to run a set of scans on a large network, it
> seems wrong that you are stuck with whatever language you used at
> the time you ran the scan.  It would seem to me that if you
> change the language at the client level, the reporting language
> ought to change as well.  Based on that, the current server-side
> localization code that was previously done is in my mind is pretty
> much useless (but hey, that's just my 0.02 worth).

seems we all agree the current concept is broken by design :-)

You bring up an interesting aspect: Should a scan result be
translatable into more than one language?

Does the gettext / po implemenations allow for easy back-to-english?
If so, I could imagine solutions to allow a translation to various
languages inside the OpenVAS-Client.
But I have to move my mind a bit more about this...

Best

	Jan
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