LocalizedStartup

Revision 1 as of 2005-10-31 19:10:08

Clear message

Summary

System boot up messages should be localized.

Rationale

Many desktops/laptop systems use only one language, that language could be used to show boot up messages.

Use cases

Jane has put Ubuntu on her mother's new PC. Mom does not speak english at all.

Scope

Design

Implementation

Suggestion: only utf8, one .mo file, gettext with special binary gettext-simple that does not look at anything else than /boot/messages.mo (for example). Efficient and small.

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion