Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 05 Dec 1998 14:58:29 -0500 | From | David Feuer <> | Subject | Re: Internationalizing Linux |
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"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote:
> 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.
I don't see why there is a problem for logging at all: just store numerics with checksums in the log. For printing out major kernel errors, etc, I would personally recommend a module for each language desired. Plug in English, you see English. Plug in Spanish, you see Spanish. Plug in Chinese and the computer crashes. What's wrong with dat?
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