From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262776AbTDIFhp (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 01:37:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262778AbTDIFhp (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 01:37:45 -0400 Received: from nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com ([24.29.99.224]:38653 "EHLO nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262776AbTDIFho (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 01:37:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3E93B496.3030806@si.rr.com> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 01:50:14 -0400 From: Frank Davis Reply-To: fdavis@si.rr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: oliver@neukum.org CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages References: <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com> <200304090729.08738.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Oliver, I'm not saying that the messages aren't in English; I'm saying that the 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. Regards, Frank Oliver Neukum wrote: > > These messages are for administrators and developers. Everybody needs > to be able to read them. They have to be in English. > > Regards > Oliver > >