Re: Jive -> Kernel (International Linux)

Philip Blundell (pjb27@cam.ac.uk)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:34:30 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:

> Why not just make it simple, and have a config option that appends a
> '-D<lang>' to the cflags, and then have the printk's like this:
>
> printk(KERN_DEBUG,
> #ifdef LANG1
> "Message that %s said %d in lang 1\n"
> #else /* not in LANG1 */
> #ifdef LANG2
> "Message that %s said %d in lang 2\n"
> else /* not in LANG2 */
> "Message that %s said %d in english\n"
> #endif /* LANG2 */
> #endif /* LANG1 */
> , device->name, status);
>
> That way if the printk hasn't been translated to the perticular
> language yet, the english is used, it dosn't use memory for each
> additional language, and you also don't have all that messing
> with loading, and searching through, lists of translations.

That would be the worst thing, because it clutters up the source code
something chronic. We do _not_ want that to happen. Internationalisation
belongs somewhere else.

P.