Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Internationalizing Linux | Date | 10 Dec 1998 00:16:33 +0100 |
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Patrick Kursawe <Patrick.Kursawe@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes: > > On AmigaOS, the localization issue was solved in this way: You create > a catalog of strings with associated ID numbers with a special program. > This catalog is just copied to a special subdirectory. [...]
You're forgetting that this is The Kernel. It needs to be able to run without a file system, and definitely without file system access at printk time.
You could invent a way to dynamically load new strings, of course -- just hook a loadable module into printk, hash the English string (or just walk down the characters if you're lazy), find the translation in a table. But that's a different kettle of fish.
-- Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH | smurf@noris.de | ICQ: 20193661
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