From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 22:09:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9902C16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:09:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3440F43D53 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:09:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id E96601C000A9 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:09:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id CDB0E1C0009D for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:09:40 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050326220940842.CDB0E1C0009D@mwinf1101.wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:09:40 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1726757977.20050326230940@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <868y4akscr.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> References: <86710893.20050326135216@wanadoo.fr> <868y4akscr.fsf@amidala.datadok.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: mot de passe root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:09:42 -0000 Peter N. M. Hansteen writes: > Take a peek in /usr/share/locale and /usr/local/share/locale next time > you're at a FreeBSD or Linux system. No need. I can look at the source of almost any UNIX program and see that there is no provision for localization at all, short of brute modification of the source code itself. But this is not unreasonable for a server operating system, although it's much harder to defend for software visible to potentially unsophisticated end users. However, back in the days when UNIX was written, localization was not a high priority, and when it was undertaken at all, it was done the hard way, by rewriting. > You haven't checked, then. No, I have not, but I should be _extremely_ surprised if Apple has gone through all the UNIX source code and modified it to permit easy localization. That would come perilously close to a rewrite. -- Anthony