From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSlC-0005u4-V0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:30:30 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSlA-0005te-Vk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:30:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSlA-0005tO-9z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:30:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSlA-0005tK-2g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:30:28 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpSl9-000101-NX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:30:27 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5803D021D6A for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 23:35:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E623D015DBF for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 23:35:49 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:30:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20070519102101.GA9673@aragorn> In-Reply-To: <20070519102101.GA9673@aragorn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705191930.26135.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.17.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: gettext 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:30:29 -0000 On Saturday 19 May 2007 12:21, Robert Millan wrote: > Are there any plans to implement gettext ? If not, I'd like to send a > proposal. Only a plan. Nothing has been done until now. I think we have three main issues: - how to prevent calling getttext before loading it (note: I don't want to put gettext in the kernel) - what should be translated (how about error messages?) - what should be done if a terminal is not capable of displaying most characters (falling back to original messages? just displaying garbage?) Technically, it is not hard to implement gettext, but the policy side requires some more attention. Okuji