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SubjectRe: kernel support for non-English user messages
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On Mer, 2003-04-16 at 15:28, Timothy Miller wrote:
> The point of this painfully off-topic rant is that messages being
> written in English are a disadvantage for no one since they all already
> know English. The messages are also simple enough that anyone

Thats a hopeless simplification for non techies and for some techies.

> I personally have a list of every kernel message I could extract from
> the source code of 2.4.20, and I've examined a lot of them. It's a lot
> like reading Dr. Seuss. Although some of the words are long, the
> vocabulary is incredibly small. A lot of text is abbreviations and
> acronyms that you wouldn't translate anyhow!

I would be interested in how you extracted them, since a tool that can
do this is the relevant 99% of the discussion, whether its for building
message explanations, translation, reducing messages for embedded...


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