Re: Internationalizing Linux

[Alan Cox]

> Personally, I'd see this as the ideal job for a userland daemon, but
> there is one slight problem with that: How to handle the messages
> before the said daemon starts. Any suggestions, Alan?

You could built the userland table into an __initdata and __initfunc
block as well that does the substitutions and free that after boot.
That would also mean with a bit of thought you could ask someone to
boot with "translation=no" if need be.

Hooking printk works - I've got some patches somewhere to boot Linux
in swedish chef

Alan