Time to internationalize the kernel?

Time to internationalize the kernel?

Posted Apr 24, 2003 9:35 UTC (Thu) by durandal (guest, #10860)
In reply to: Time to internationalize the kernel? by komarek
Parent article: Time to internationalize the kernel?

Hello, I am French and when I read this message, I laugh :) Automatic translators are not reliable, these kernel messages don't mean anything. The word "kernel" itself is translated into "grain", but in French we say "noyau" (the word for the hard part of a fruit, like the cherry, I don't know if "kernel" means exactly the same thing in English, my dictionary isn't very clear). There are also a lot of grammatical errors... (surely like in this comment btw ;) To give you an idea, I translated my kernel messages in French and then in English using Google :

Apr 22 10:03:25 Anduril syslogd 1.4.1#10:  restarting.  
Apr 22 10:03:25 Core of Anduril:  klogd 1.4.1#10, source of journalizing =/proc/kmsg started.
Apr 22 10:03:25 Core of Anduril:  Examination of/boot/System.map-2.4.18 
Apr 22 10:03:25 Anduril usbmgr[192 ]:  starting 0.4.8 
Apr 22 10:03:25 Core of Anduril:  15211 symbols charged from /boot/System.map-2.4.18.  
Apr 22 10:03:25 Core of Anduril:  The symbols correspond to version 2.4.18 of the core.  
Apr 22 10:03:25 Core of Anduril:  114 symbols charged starting from 9 modules.  

Your last French sentence is not clear too, I couldn't translate it :), but it might end with "block device module loaded".

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