Messages in this thread | | | From | Robert Glamm <> | Subject | Re: Kernel-Messages translation (fwd) | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:03:31 -0500 (CDT) |
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> > > One thing: does anyone realize what this is going to mean for bug > > > reports? I can guarantee that if I receive log messages that I can't > > > read, I'll hit the delete key so quickly you wouldn't even notice. > > > > > > I think this is a bad idea. We're talking about the kernel, > > > ferchrissake... > > > > why not like Oracle: 'ORA-18560: kak tebja zawut' > > 'LIN-12341: fatalitsisky errorno inodo' > > > > also, bug reports would be more consistent, the string 'LIN-' would likely > > be present in a bug report. > > > > [English could be a fallback language for untranslated messages.] > > If (BIG if here) Linus was to ever accept all possable translations for > each kernel message into every possable language, this is the only sensable > way to do it. If each message has a unique code (that is independent of > language) it might be possable. Of course, not all alphabets include > the required symbols for Latin kernel string identifiers. It would be > a pain to get bug reports that had the kernel error identifier string in > some multi-byte hieroglyphics that did not translate to a Latin alphabet > at all...
Write a small perl script to include in the scripts/ directory that reads identifier/English pairs into an associative array, scans for error messages via identifier & replaces them with the english value from the associative array.
For that matter, I wonder if it could be done automatically as a back-end processing agent for majordomo on vger.rutgers.edu without killing the load too much... Seems to me that since majordomo is already written in perl adding a few lines of code to scan & replace ID/error pairs in the body wouldn't be too much.
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