Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:29:54 +0100 (MET) | From | Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <> | Subject | Re: -j zImage (locales) |
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On 17 Oct 1998, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Okay, personal opinion:
> >>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> writes: > >> make[2]: vfork: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar > > How did you see this meesage? > This is a glibc message. glibc uses locales for those.
Locales are a bad idea. Locales in error/library messages are a horrible idea. "Locales" in the kernel is.. well, I think we flamed about this a few times..
> > Why these messages are not in English? > Why should they ?
Dunno. Maybe Linus should start putting code and documentation written in .fi, others in .cz, .es, .de, etc. The point is, I cant help this guy it I dont know german. Or japanese, or whatever. We have a more or less common language. Why not stick to it?
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