Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Internationalizing Linux | Date | Sat, 05 Dec 1998 09:52:10 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <19981205000201.K17765@pinguin.conetix.de>, jens@pinguin.conetix.de writes: +----- | On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:53:08AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: | >> So is that why the old IBM mainframes tagged every system | >> message with a unique identifier? | > Oh and everybody should have a 2000 page translation table on paper? | | Come on. You know these "SYS3175: Das Program hat eine illegale Instruktion | ausgeführt und wird deshalb beendet." messages, ANY IBM programmer will be | able to backtrack the message by using the SYS number. +--->8
Relatively poor example; as in Linux, that is printed by the "shell" (PMSHELL.EXE in this case) in user mode and is therefore subject to translation, just as bash can choose to internationalize the equivalent Linux message ("Segmentation violation"). It's the stuff recorded by klogd that is the problem.
| | What do you need a 2000 page translation table for then? +--->8
Have you ever seen what an OS/2 error message during the early boot stages looks like? ("OS/2 !! 01425" or similar. Linux's messages are rarely so obtuse, thankfully.) I could kill whatever twat at IBM thought we didn't need a translation table on paper....
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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