Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:15:09 -0400 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, David Schultz <das@freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Subject: Re: On errno Message-ID: <A48085CA-85E8-4478-BB1A-F324076BC0B4@lakerest.net> In-Reply-To: <96332.1238482115@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <96332.1238482115@critter.freebsd.dk>
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P: I like your original idea best... its simple and seems to me a very positive way to go. Things that get complex tend to be avoided by application writers.. where simple things get picked up ;-) R On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:48 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20090331063159.GA9265@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. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ------------------------------ Randall Stewart 803-317-4952 (cell) 803-345-0391(direct)
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