From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263775AbTDJC5g (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:57:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263800AbTDJC5g (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:57:36 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:1040 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263775AbTDJC5f (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:57:35 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation Message-ID: References: <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com> X-Trace: palladium.transmeta.com 1049944134 24269 127.0.0.1 (10 Apr 2003 03:08:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@transmeta.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 2003 03:08:54 GMT Cache-Post-Path: palladium.transmeta.com!unknown@penguin.transmeta.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com>, Frank Davis wrote: > >I wish to suggest a possible 2.6 or 2.7 feature (too late for 2.4.x and >2.5.x, I believe) that I believe would be helpful. Currently, printk >messages are all in english, and I was wondering if printk could be >modified to print out user messages that are in the default language of >the machine. For example, This has come up before. The answer is: go ahead and do it, but don't do it in the kernel. Do it in klogd or similar. I refuse to clutter the kernel with inane and fragile (and totally unmaintainable) internationalization code. The string lookup can equally well be done in user space where it isn't a stability and complexity issue. Linus