Off-topic!

Haven't bothered to look, but locale is user-space. Kernel-space probably couldn't give a damn. For how long was the www (American) English only - I sat with Chinese mates whose Mandarin sites had (only) English site addresses. Things eventually evolve.

"Yes, the only completely correct English is form England. Where did you think the language got that NAME?
I am completely USA American, and speak with a mostly midwestern dialect that I am sure you would understand well. That does not mean mine is the only correct dialect, it is only one of MANY spinoffs of the root language that was born in England.

The only reason that's 'the correct' one is that that's what's beaten into posh kids in schools. England is one of the few places remaining with a distinct non-racial class system. Many colonial lands strive towards, although don't achieve apartheid-type distinctions. Sadly, although it's not in law, it's in people's hearts.

No, it is the "correct" one because it is the location that the language was formed in it's pure form. Just as Germany is the birthplace of (5 dialects of ) German, and France is the birthplace of French and can define what is correct French, English was born of and in England and that is where it is defined. That does not depend upon what language you were taught, any class systems, or anything other than a simple fact of history.

BTW: the first European language spoken in the Americas was not English, it was Spanish. By rights, the American languages are the languages of the First Peoples of American, the Native Americans. This for the same reason as above: history.

These ONLY apply to the current subject in one small way and are really irrelevant to the current question. The language of the Kernel developers has set the standard for internal text of kernel messages that the numerical errors and signals translate into for human readability. While it is almost trivial (in theory) to change those to any specific language in the kernel sources, it is remarkably challenging to make a language independent or malleable compiled kernel.

It is, however, a worthy goal. And, as I said before, there are those working on the problem.

Perhaps we should all just learn Esperanto and make all kernel message text default to Esperanto except when filtered through and interface or translation interface. Being artificial, it may be the easiest and fastest language to learn, and is remarkably consistent (something NO dialect of English can claim!). The odds of any significant percentage of any group of developers agreeing with THAT concept rapidly approaches zero as the number of developers increases! That leaves a code solution our best hope.

No, Esperanto is not only too vague and imprecise but more or less a simplified Spanish and thus not neutral. Computer work is about precision. Kernel work is among the activities requiring the most precision. Therefore the work should be done only in Ithkuil and the messages should reflect that. ;)

Thank you, Turbocapitalist! You've given me something to read for the next couple of weeks!

Personally, I feel your combined Analyses are not anywhere near solving this. look at dmesg |less

The kernel isn't really in English, it's written in Electronic and software gobbledygook. ACPI registers; SSE registers; AVX registers are all the intimate privates of a computer core, which is electronic hardware. XSAVE I presume to be some software feature for manipulating these. and look at this chunk Nobody, except possibly an ACPI or other kernel dev, can tell us what that means. They are all abbreviations for things going on in the ACPI (itself an abbreviation). Now when you make up an abbreviation based on or combining one or more abbreviations, all sense or meaning is lost from a translation POV.

I appreciate the intelligence, spirituality and deep thinking of any person, regardless of colour, or race. These things were named in English, because much of the primary work was done in English, often by foreigners who communicated through English. Nobody taught me Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or any such useful language. But I'll bet you, all those people are being educated in English, as it's the most common language in the world.

We learned a few posts back that these error numbers which the kernel generates are translated to English and spat out. So that translation file is part of the kernel. Software, however, is international. Email addresses and ability on the LKML come from many diverse places. If any kernel dev gets exercised about this, can he not write up his own language translation, and get that accepted into the kernel code? None of them has bothered. So why should we exercise ourselves about it?

You are correct for languages that spread through colonialisation.
But this does not apply to German language, Germany and its surrounding countries.
Middle Europe is the birth place of Old High German, at a time when nothing like Germany even existed.
Many different dialects were spoken in what are now 3 countries that have German as their national language (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and a little beyond that to the West I think.
At some point (printing press) it was decided a) how it's going to be written and b) which dialect is the "pure" form. A dialect spoken where Martin Luther lived, roughly. It might be argued that after that a new High German became the new default that spread throughout German-speaking Europe, but a) it wasn't all that succesful (Swiss German is to this day very different) and b) it would be wrong (and even insulting) to assume that "Germans brought the German language to Austria".

Sorry for another OT, but I had to correct this.

Basically there are two groups of languages: those spoken in states which crystallised during the dark ages, and those spoken in areas that did not achieve statehood in the modern sense until the nineteenth century or later.

For the first group, the standard dialect was that spoken by educated inhabitants of the capital city. Thus Standard English was educated London English, Standard Scots was Edinburgh Scots and Standard French was the language spoken in the area around Paris.

For the second group, where there was no capital city, the standard dialect was chosen on literary grounds: Standard German is the Saxon of Luther's Bible and Standard Italian is the Tuscan of Dante and Petrarch.