Re: kernel support for non-English user messages

[John Bradford]

> > > I've used VMS, and error code number encoding is a total heap of crap.
> >
> >
> >  Maybe for developers, but users like it.  I can still remember back in
> > the Old Days, taking those error codes and looking them up in something
> > called a "manual" where there was a coherent explanation of
> > what had gone wrong and even suggestions on what to do about it.
> 
> I think that's the real point here: without a manual to look things up in,  
> none of this actually buys us anything.

Agreed.

> The grepme file someone proposed

It was me.  I'm happy to maintain it, if there is sufficient interest.

> seems to be a reasonable first step,  
> starting to number or otherways add a code to everything doesn't - it may  
> or may not be a reasonable thing after there is experience with the grepme  
> file, but we don't have that experience right now so we don't know.

Agreed.

John.