Bruce Harada wrote:
>Suggestion: Chop your CCs. I sus pect Linus gave up on this topic a long time
>ago, as (most likely) have the majority of the others.
>
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:28:31 -0400
>Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>The Japanese are taught to read and write English as school children.
>> They also are taught how to write their own language in Romanji, which
>>is an adaptation of the Roman alphabet.
>>
>>
>
>No, they're not (taught to write Japanese in Romaji, that is).
>
>
Perhaps I was mistaken on that.
>
>
>> How much you want to bet that
>>the Japanese use English when they write error messages?
>>
>>
>
>Well, it rather depends on the person... try setting your locale to
>ja_JP.eucJP, and you might be surprised by the applications that give you
>Japanese messages. Certainly, some Japanese people prefer messages in
>English, but that can hardly be generalized across the entire userbase.
>
>
Applications. Far more people work on applications than on the kernel.
I'm not saying I don't think Japanese would benefit from Japanese
messages. I'm saying that, in my humble estimation, i18n kernel
messages would lose in the cost-benefit analysis.
>
>
>>Linus Torvalds isn't the first Finn I've encountered who speaks, reads,
>>and writes English impeccably.
>>
>>I've also never met a German who didn't speak English.
>>
>>When we have Asian vendors from various countries come visit where I
>>work, even the ones who need a translator speak English better than we
>>speak their language.
>>
>>
>
>My only answer is, you have only had the opportunity to meet people from
>overseas who have some English ability... really, your argument is on the same
>level as "I've got lots of foreign friends who all like <whatever>, so all
>foreigners must like <whatever>."
>
You make a good point.
>
>Bruce
>
>
>PS: I'm against translating kernel messages, but for technical reasons (simple
>== good) rather than some wild idea that everybody else in the world can
>understand English.
>
I agree that an objective technical analysis, not personal opinion,
should be the basis of our decision on this matter.
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