Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:42:00 +0100 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: New Feature Idea: Configurable text(msgs) |
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On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:21:42PM +0100, ketil@ii.uib.no wrote:
> Pondering about it, I think it's an advantage that I can, in the event > of a kernel error message: > > a) Do a search on Altavista for the message, and come up with people > who've had the same problem, and hopefully a solution as well. Even if > they're posting the rest of the post in German (babelfish, here I come!) > b) Mail the error message to developers, without having them twisting > their brain trying to work out the correct back-translation from > Norwegian to English (or whatever their working language is) > c) Rely on a complete set of sensible and consistent error messages > (i.e. what happens if somebody translates a kernel, and I apply patches > to it in a different language? ) > > With some clever design, b) and c) could be resolved I guess. But I > don't think it is worth it, and while the notion that kernel developers > ought to learn English is perhaps a bit arrogant, I don't think it's an > unreasonable demand. > > Look at the extreme mess MS made out of trying to i18n their stuff, I > get every app in a weird mixture of Norwegian, English and German. > > Not that my vote counts a lot, of course.... :-) >
On OS/2 I remember getting errors like 'E1314' (or similar) when you tried booting with an OS/2-formatted floppy. Unless you have the accompanying error translation table you have to 'know' the error messages. For embedded work and other areas where memory is tight, this is a good idea. Random translations of messages without a common reference used by the two messages is a bad idea.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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