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Time to internationalize the kernel?Time to internationalize the kernel?Posted Apr 23, 2003 12:14 UTC (Wed) by mwilck (guest, #1966)In reply to: Time to internationalize the kernel? by NAR Parent article: Time to internationalize the kernel?
> How many hits would I get from Google for the Hungarian message? Exactly. However this applies just as well to messages from other parts of the system, not the kernel alone. Actually, it applies to anything where language is used for human-machine interaction. Think of menu items: If you run a non-English environment, you'll hardly be able to submit a meaningful bug report because you can't tell which GUI elements you clicked on. From this perspective, I18n was a bad idea right from the start. Unfortunately, it's impossible to turn back the wheel ... but please, don't put it into the kernel.
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