Make error messages more useful: add a URI

[Greg Hudson]

On 10/21/2014 10:51 AM, Wang Shouhua wrote:
> On 9 October 2014 23:07, Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> [libdefaults]
>>
>>>     err_fmt = %E. Please see https://whatever.example/%N
>>
>> We would probably accept a patch for this, as long as it doesn't turn
>> out to be a lot of code.  There does need to be an internal API to get
>> the unadorned message for the places where we augment or copy error
>> messages, or an equivalent means of handling those cases without doubly
>> applying the err_fmt.
> 
> So basically you say localization doesn't matter for MIT?

I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion.  If localization didn't
matter for MIT, we would not have implemented
http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Projects/Localization back in 1.10.

Our built-in error messages already go through a localization step.
What do you suggest beyond this?  We cannot, of course, automatically
localize user-defined text within a custom err_fmt.