Re: Internationalizing Linux

Haroldo Stenger =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E1bat (hstenger@adinet.com.uy)
Sat, 05 Dec 1998 03:14:06 -0600


Alan Cox wrote:
> > So is that why the old IBM mainframes tagged every system message with
> > a unique identifier?
>
> Probably.

Numeric identifiers have more merits:
- are faster to report using speach,
- avoid misleading interpretation by plain users, mainly non-english speakers.

Hmm, on the other hand, someone has to deal with serialization.

-- 

Saludos, Haroldo.

------------------------------ "Y con esto me despido Sin expresar hasta cuando. Siempre corta por lo blando El que busca lo siguro; Mas yo corto por lo duro, Y ansí he de seguir cortando."

José Hernández - Martín Fierro ------------------------------

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/