Do not translate extremely rare / technical errors

hebasto · hebasto · commit fea324f90e58 · 2019-06-17T00:13:04.000+03:00
diff --git a/doc/translation_strings_policy.md b/doc/translation_strings_policy.md
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ On a high level, these strings are to be translated:
 
 ### GUI strings
 
-Anything that appears to the user in the GUI is to be translated. This includes labels, menu items, button texts, tooltips and window titles.
+Do not translate extremely rare or technical errors. These cases must be commented in the code explicitly.
+Anything else that appears to the user in the GUI is to be translated. This includes labels, menu items, button texts, tooltips and window titles.
 This includes messages passed to the GUI through the UI interface through `InitMessage`, `ThreadSafeMessageBox` or `ShowProgress`.
 
 General recommendations
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
@@ -745,7 +745,8 @@ static void ThreadImport(std::vector<fs::path> vImportFiles)
  */
 static bool InitSanityCheck()
 {
-    if(!ECC_InitSanityCheck()) {
+    if (!ECC_InitSanityCheck()) {
+        // This message is intentionally untranslated because the error is extremely rare.
         InitError("Elliptic curve cryptography sanity check failure. Aborting.");
         return false;
     }
@@ -754,6 +755,7 @@ static bool InitSanityCheck()
         return false;
 
     if (!Random_SanityCheck()) {
+        // This message is intentionally untranslated because the error is extremely rare.
         InitError("OS cryptographic RNG sanity check failure. Aborting.");
         return false;
     }
@@ -915,8 +917,10 @@ bool AppInitBasicSetup()
     SetProcessDEPPolicy(PROCESS_DEP_ENABLE);
 #endif
 
-    if (!SetupNetworking())
+    if (!SetupNetworking()) {
+        // This message is intentionally untranslated because the error is extremely rare.
         return InitError("Initializing networking failed");
+    }
 
 #ifndef WIN32
     if (!gArgs.GetBoolArg("-sysperms", false)) {
