Does anybody actually use FaultReasonText to localize faults from WCF services?

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Published on 2010-03-18T10:21:22Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 13:43 UTC
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There is a localization mechanism in WCF that enables one to localize faults returned to client, via a FaultReasonText object that's a part of the fault.

The way this is done is that you pass all possible translations of the fault's message inside a collection in the FaultReasonText. This, I understand, is based on SOAP v1.2.

Does anyone actually use this mechanism? Isn't this wasteful in terms of bandwidth? Why would you send all possible translations to a client that is (probably) only interested in a specific language?

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