From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262972AbTDIJ0Z (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 05:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262974AbTDIJ0Z (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 05:26:25 -0400 Received: from mario.gams.at ([194.42.96.10]:22120 "EHLO mario.gams.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262972AbTDIJ0Y convert rfc822-to-8bit (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 05:26:24 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.1 18/02/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: fdavis@si.rr.com cc: oliver@neukum.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages References: <3E93B496.3030806@si.rr.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Apr 2003 01:50:14 EDT." <3E93B496.3030806@si.rr.com> X-url: http://www.luga.at/~bernd/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:37:40 +0200 Message-ID: <2688.1049881060@frodo.gams.co.at> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frank Davis wrote: >I'm not saying that the messages aren't in English; I'm saying that the You just say it below: If the message on the console is in Spanish, it is no longer in English. >messages don't *only* have to be in English on the output. The message >in the kernel could remain as is, but the output kernel message would be >tailored in the default language of the user's machine, so for example a >Spanish administrator or developer wouldn't need to know English to read >the kernel output. I don't think we can assume that all >administrators/users or developers have English as their primary language. But as their secondary or whatever they can at least read a little bit. I assume you will translate all Spanish or Welsh or .. kernel-oops on this mailing-list for non-Spanish-speakers and non-Welsh-speakers. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@gams.at g.a.m.s gmbh Fax : +43 1 205255-900 Prinz-Eugen-Straße 8 A-1040 Vienna/Austria/Europe LUGA : http://www.luga.at