Time to internationalize the kernel?
Posted Apr 19, 2003 4:45 UTC (Sat) by
dizzl (guest, #5521)
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Time to internationalize the kernel?
I agree with the editor's comment that maintaining a number space for all
messages is at best difficult and very time consuming.
Thus another approach might be to separate namespaces so there is less
chance of clashes between message numbers. For instance, printk() can
encode the filename (__FILE__) into the message number, automatically
separating all files into separate namespaces. A message id could then
become something like "<2:kernel/sched.c:3>".
This could mean a big increase in the kernel binary however, unless the
English texts are also moved out of the kernel itself and into a lookup by klogd.
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