Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:12:21 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [Lf_kernel_messages] Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) |
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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
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