From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LBfOt-0003wc-Fd for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:04:03 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LBfOs-0003w7-8x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:04:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LBfOr-0003vh-Kq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:04:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42388 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LBfOr-0003vb-Fg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:04:01 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:40932) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LBfOq-0003Rk-Uy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:04:01 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=printer) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LBfKJ-00067I-1J; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:59:19 +0100 Received: from rmh by printer with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBfOe-0006nL-CX; Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:03:48 +0100 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:03:48 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20081214010348.GB25952@thorin> References: <20080926081627.GA8732@pina.cat> <20080926083411.GA8845@pina.cat> <1222427611.4210.1.camel@fz.local> <20080926121909.GB9530@pina.cat> <20080928133907.GC23805@thorin> <20081207233308.GA15844@pina.cat> <20081208143349.GA6086@pina.cat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081208143349.GA6086@pina.cat> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Jordi Mallach Subject: Re: localization of Grub 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, 14 Dec 2008 01:04:02 -0000 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 ;-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."