Re: Kernel messages, I18N, etc.

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:08:42 -0500 (EST)


I'd like to see it happen, but it looks near impossible.
You can start with just the messages you see when you boot
a plain IDE + NE2000 system.

It would be great if this could work without modified kernel
source. For example, a preprocessor that looks for strings
that must be replaced. Line numbers with a 50-line offset
allowance ought to do the job, along with some tools to update
the replacement database line numbers as the code changes.

make update-i18n # attempt to resynchronize line numbers

With line numbers in the database, you can map backwards to
to original English text.

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