Re: About kernel-filesystem translation

["nawar nory" <nawar dot linuxmail at gmail dot com>]

Hello Imed,
I know that it would be much appreciated to translate the user-space programs in Arabic, but for me it would be much easier to translate something which I am working on currently. Most file systems documentation which I am referencing to do exist in any /user/src/`uname -r`/Documentation/filesystems path of any Linux tree, and as I mentioned previously I am limited to do this only because I am working under some strict time constraints. I hope you all will understand that.

By the way, I forgot to mention that, I am an Iraqi.

Nawar

On 7/29/07, (Imed Chihi) عماد الشيحي < imed dot chihi at gmail dot com> wrote:

Salam Nawar,

2007/7/29, nawar nory < nawar dot linuxmail at gmail dot com>:
> My name is Nawar A. Nouri and I am graduate student in computer science. My
> main reason for contacting you is to unify our efforts to translate Linux
> documentation. I was about to start a project of my own but I heard about
> you and I want to participate. My main interest is kernel development and
> more precisely filesystem development, thus I would like to help translate
> the VFS layer and the existing filesystem documentation, if you are
> interested please reply, I will be waiting for your response.

The kernel VFS layer strings (messages) have not been translated to
any language as far I can tell. Those are supposed to go into kernel
logs and should not be visible to end users. Actually, I don't think
that the kernel has any provisions for mutilingual support in the
sources.

The part that might require some work is the applications where
user-visible strings are: ls, mv, cp, etc. Typically, those are in
coreutils, util-linux, nfs-utils, samba-client and the like.

Let us know what you think.

-Imed

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