Re: [Lf_kernel_messages] Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

O> Yep, it's going to be up to the translators to keep the message
catalogs up to date. The gettext folks have figured out ways of doing
fuzzy string matches, and so if you keep the external database of
filename, line #, string, hash, and translation(s), when you go to new
version of the kernel, it's not that hard to make the fuzzy
translations work.

The tools can extract the strings if marked _() which is easy work to do
and you usually only want to hit a subset of strings anyway [the ones
that occur usually].

Having implemented an encheferizer in a much older kernel its worth it
even for the humour value of a valspeak kernel (plus some people will
never be happy until it says things like

SYS-E-FOO: Incorrect operating system in use
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