Re: [Lf_kernel_messages] Re: Documentation of kernel messages(Summary)

[Alan Cox]

O> Yep, it's going to be up to the translators to keep the message
> catalogs up to date.  The gettext folks have figured out ways of doing
> fuzzy string matches, and so if you keep the external database of
> filename, line #, string, hash, and translation(s), when you go to new
> version of the kernel, it's not that hard to make the fuzzy
> translations work.

The tools can extract the strings if marked _() which is easy work to do
and you usually only want to hit a subset of strings anyway [the ones
that occur usually].

Having implemented an encheferizer in a much older kernel its worth it
even for the humour value of a valspeak kernel (plus some people will
never be happy until it says things like

SYS-E-FOO: Incorrect operating system in use
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