RE: kernel support for non-English user messages

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:21, Riley Williams wrote:
>  1. If the printk() messages are internationalised, we are going to
>     see log extracts posted here in various languages, including some
>     that the relevant maintainers don't understand. To stand any
>     realistic chance of dealing with the resultant bug reports, we
>     need to include the message code in the report so we can just
>     feed the various reports through a tool that translates them into
>     our preferred language.

Providing the viewer is translating the originals always exist. Indeed
you can do

	LANG=es view-logs
	LANG=ru view-logs
	...

You can have sysadmins with no common language("not a recommended
configuration" ;))

You are right about needing to log parameters, but given a log line
of the form

%s: went up in flames\n\0eth0\0\0

that can be handled by the log viewer