Re: kernel support for non-English user messages

[Alan Cox]

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...