Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:35:18 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches |
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> Which is why I think for something like this, it really needs to be > entirely outside. Because putting it inside the kernel simply isn't going > to result in anything really useful. Either it can be close to the message > and be updated reasonably (never mind that if we really do support > multiple languages, that's not going to happen anyway, even if it's > close), or it's going to be somewhere else and not be updated when changes > happen - and then it migth as well be a separate project.
Small bits of it have to be inside the kernel - Markup (_("Hello") To extract the strings) - To format the data in a way that can be recovered by ksyslogd and translated.
Alan
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