Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:21:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alain Kalker <alain@Wit401402.student.utwente.nl> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>, phk@critter.tfs.com, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950920010820.371B-100000@Wit401402.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <199509182044.NAA08542@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is *not* an attempt to support internationalization of kernel messages. > Though that would be critically cool, it is an unlikely prospect in the > extreme without additional support for argument positioning qualifiers for > syntactic reordering of sentences. And I'm not asking for that (consider Why couldn't we implement these? Building an internationalized kernel would only require including specific language support files. I know the use of them as long ago as a COMAL interpreter on CP/M... It did use positioning qualifiers and such, but even then, it supported error messages in several languages... All right, this sure is not a kernel, but I think the messages a kernel would use are not that diverse, compared to the expressive capabilities of an entire language :-) --- Alain
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