You're forgetting that this is The Kernel. It needs to be able to run
without a file system, and definitely without file system access at printk
time.
You could invent a way to dynamically load new strings, of course -- just
hook a loadable module into printk, hash the English string (or just walk
down the characters if you're lazy), find the translation in a table. But
that's a different kettle of fish.
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