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SubjectRe: -j zImage (locales)

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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