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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:29:08 +0200
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> I'm looking for a possible uniform design to make this happen, short of
> adding a complete machine translation module to the kernel. :) Userland
> internationalization support is already provided(I haven't personally
> used other languages besides English, but I've seen the options), but a
> kernel module or printk addition that handles localized kernel messages
> seems reasonable.
>
> Thoughts, comments?

These messages are for administrators and developers. Everybody needs
to be able to read them. They have to be in English.

	Regards
		Oliver