Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-english user messages | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:08:33 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com>, Frank Davis <fdavis@si.rr.com> 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.
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