Re: localization of Grub

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:33:49PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Dec/08/2008, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> > I understand that we/I should adapt some scripts using, for example, this
> > guideline?:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/gettext/Preparing-Shell-Scripts.html
> > 
> > (I haven't tested now, I think that some years ago I did some tests with
> 
> They use gettext.sh file, in my Debian is in:
> /usr/bin/gettext.sh, in package gettext-base . Do you think that this is
> the best way? Do we assume that gettext.sh it's there, or we provide
> backfail mechanism? (for example I don't think that this file comes with
> cygwin...)
> 
> I can translate in two ways:
> ----
> echo $(gettext "hello world")
> eval_gettext "hello world";echo
> ----
> 
> so, with eval_gettext (comes from gettext.sh) or from gettext binary
> straight. 
> 
> eval_gettext helps a bit substituing shell variables:
> # eval_gettext MSGID
> # looks up the translation of MSGID and substitutes shell variables in the
> # result.
> eval_gettext () {
>   gettext "$1" | (export PATH `envsubst --variables "$1"`; envsubst
> "$1")
> }
> 
> But we could do it without gettext.sh
> 
> Which method do you think that we should use?
> With failback option?

I have no idea about this, and others in this list didn't reply.  I suggest
you ask Jordi Mallach (CCed).  He's quite knowledgeable about such things
and often hangs around here too ;-)

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