| Date | Sat, 05 Dec 1998 03:14:06 -0600 | From | "Haroldo Stenger Sábat\" <> | Subject | Re: Internationalizing Linux |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > So is that why the old IBM mainframes tagged every system message with > > a unique identifier? > > Probably.
Numeric identifiers have more merits: - are faster to report using speach, - avoid misleading interpretation by plain users, mainly non-english speakers.
Hmm, on the other hand, someone has to deal with serialization.
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