Re: kernel support for non-english user messages

Alan Cox
2003-04-09T11:50:54Z

On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 06:29, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> These messages are for administrators and developers. Everybody needs
> to be able to read them. They have to be in English.

Everyone cannot read English. Many non English speakers will be admins
of their own desktop boxes.

For the general case I agree. It would be nice to have message
catalogues and translation capability within klogd and maybe of
a few key messages to console but for most cases it would make things
more complex not simpler