Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:36:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:36:00 -0400 Received: from pc132.utati.net ([216.143.22.132]:62109 "HELO merlin.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:35:59 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley To: Larry Kessler , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH-RFC] README 1ST - New problem logging macros (2.5.38) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:41:06 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel mailing list , "Andrew V. Savochkin" , cgl_discussion mailing list , evlog mailing list , Rusty Russell , Hien Nguyen , James Keniston , Mike Sullivan , Richard J Moore References: <3D93678B.8EF7A420@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <3D93678B.8EF7A420@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20020926233818.CE506398@merlin.webofficenow.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1617 Lines: 36 On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:01 pm, Larry Kessler wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Larry Kessler wrote: > > > Distros could be motivated to provide translations, etc. for the kernel > > > versions that they base new releases on. > > > > Unlikely. It's hard enough already when somebody who doesn't > > speak the language submits a bugreport by email or through > > bugzilla. > > > > I don't want to imagine receiving a bug report from eg. Japan > > that has a cut'n'pasted kernel error in Japanese. It's not just > > that I can't read Japanese ... I don't even have the FONT to > > display it. > > Right, so the tools that take kernel events and display them in > human-readable form must be written to always display in english, > with the option to also display in another language, thus allowing > the non-English-reading SysAdmin in Japan to easily understand the > info. If your system is functional enough after the "event" that the user can make this selection and the system listens to them, then it can clearly be done in userspace. Otherwise, the ability to select is kind of pointless. It has to be done before you actually have a problem, and will result in swahili bug reports to the list because that's the language it was outputting when the problem happened and they can't necessarily reproduce the problem on demand. Rob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/