From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MISVT-0003IP-4s for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:11 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MISVR-0003GR-DH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MISVL-0003BE-1G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36504 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MISVK-0003B7-Nu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:02 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:45078) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MISVK-00067L-Aq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:15:02 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay2.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.112]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 21 Jun 2009 15:15:01 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay2.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 74F8334C6A for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20090621184230.GA21495@thorin> References: <20090616214709.GA31314@pina.cat> <20090618205607.GA20132@pina.cat> <20090619103747.GC19777@thorin> <20090621110757.GB27710@thorin> <20090621172236.GA23270@pina.cat> <20090621184230.GA21495@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:14:59 -0400 Message-Id: <1245611699.4250.19.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.2 (2.26.2-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Fw: gettext support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:15:09 -0000 On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:42 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:22:36PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > It's not a problem. We need two locations anyway: one where make install > > > > copies them and the other one where ./grub-install copies them. Would it be > > > > possible to use /usr/share/grub/locale/$LANG.mo rather than > > > > /usr/share/locale/$LANG/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo? It would make grub-install > > > > easier > > > > > > No, for system locales we need to use standard locations, or the userland > > > gettext won't find them. > > > > No, for example: > > Uhm, okay. But I'd really prefer if we could stick to the standard paths > anyway :-) Do we really need to localize the bootloader? I think localization of the tools should be sufficient. Even Linux kernel is not localized, and it's more likely to tell the user something important than the bootloader. Besides, how would you ask the user about the preferred language at the boot time? If anything goes wrong, it's likely that the translations won't be available, and if everything is fine, the user would just pick an item from the menu, and the menu can be localized when it's generated. As for the tools localization, we should follow the standards. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin