On errno

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20090331063159.GA9265 at zim.MIT.EDU>, David Schultz writes:

>You could get the extensibility you're looking for without
>annoying the i18n folks by making the strings conform to a simple
>machine-parsable grammar. For instance, the above might be:
>    "geom:part:overlaps bootcode(3)"
>A user-level library function could parse this, look up a natural
>language translation in a locale-specific database, and fall back
>on a generic format if no translation is available.

Or maybe emit all messages in Esparanto and use automatic translation ?

Seriously, I don't see anybody advocating that dmesg(1) output be
translated, so until such time as somebody starts that pointless
project, I think we can leave error messages from the kernel in the
same language as pretty much everything else in our system: English.

Don't overengineer it guys.

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