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SubjectRe: Internationalizing Linux
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  Patrick Kursawe <Patrick.Kursawe@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
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> 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.

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Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH | smurf@noris.de | ICQ: 20193661

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