Re: -j zImage (locales)

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)
Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:29:54 +0100 (MET)


On 17 Oct 1998, Stefan Monnier wrote:

Okay, personal opinion:

> >>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> writes:
> >> make[2]: vfork: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar
> > How did you see this meesage?
> This is a glibc message. glibc uses locales for those.

Locales are a bad idea. Locales in error/library messages are a horrible
idea. "Locales" in the kernel is.. well, I think we flamed about this a
few times..

> > Why these messages are not in English?
> Why should they ?

Dunno. Maybe Linus should start putting code and documentation written in
.fi, others in .cz, .es, .de, etc. The point is, I cant help this guy it I
dont know german. Or japanese, or whatever. We have a more or less common
language. Why not stick to it?

-- 
____/|  Ragnar Hojland  (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)      Fingerprint  94C4B
\ o.O|                                                   2F0D27DE025BE2302C
 =(_)=  "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for      104B78C56 B72F0822
   U     chaos and madness await thee at its end."       hkp://keys.pgp.com

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/