From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263012AbTDILuy (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:50:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263016AbTDILuy (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:50:54 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:26267 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263012AbTDILuw (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:50:52 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages From: Alan Cox To: oliver@neukum.name Cc: fdavis@si.rr.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200304090729.08738.oliver@neukum.org> References: <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com> <200304090729.08738.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1049886246.9901.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 09 Apr 2003 12:04:07 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 06:29, Oliver Neukum wrote: > These messages are for administrators and developers. Everybody needs > to be able to read them. They have to be in English. Everyone cannot read English. Many non English speakers will be admins of their own desktop boxes. For the general case I agree. It would be nice to have message catalogues and translation capability within klogd and maybe of a few key messages to console but for most cases it would make things more complex not simpler