Re: [RFC][PATCH] New message-logging API (kprint)

[Alan Cox]

> > With the current code, localisation is not possible to do in a sane
> > way.
> 
> Run dmesg through a filter in userspace using lots of regular expressions.  
> Your average perl junkie could knock out a basic prototype in 20 minutes.

He did say "sane".

Good internationalisation requires you know where the messages are and
where the substitutions (%foo) are. So the entire operation would in fact
require

1.	An option to set "translation friendly please"

2.	A tiny modification to the snprintfoo code to support putting
some kind of marker before/after arguments and maybe doubling a symbol to
avoid vagueness

The submission is overkill compared to what is required for translation
tools and syslog.

Alan
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