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    SubjectRe: [Lf_kernel_messages] Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)
    O> Yep, it's going to be up to the translators to keep the message
    > catalogs up to date. The gettext folks have figured out ways of doing
    > fuzzy string matches, and so if you keep the external database of
    > filename, line #, string, hash, and translation(s), when you go to new
    > version of the kernel, it's not that hard to make the fuzzy
    > translations work.

    The tools can extract the strings if marked _() which is easy work to do
    and you usually only want to hit a subset of strings anyway [the ones
    that occur usually].

    Having implemented an encheferizer in a much older kernel its worth it
    even for the humour value of a valspeak kernel (plus some people will
    never be happy until it says things like

    SYS-E-FOO: Incorrect operating system in use
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