From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 16:22:27 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA05669 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:22:27 -0700 Received: from Wit401402.student.utwente.nl (Wit401402.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA05660 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:22:22 -0700 Received: (from alain@localhost) by Wit401402.student.utwente.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA00459; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:21:32 +0200 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:21:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alain Kalker Reply-To: A.C.P.M.Kalker@student.utwente.nl To: Terry Lambert cc: Julian Elischer , phk@critter.tfs.com, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? In-Reply-To: <199509182044.NAA08542@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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