On 04/05/2012 10:26 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Currently GRUB uses the "old" way of gnulib translation (importing into > our domain) but we'll change for the next release. With that there are > however 2 issues: > 1) It seems that gnulib TP uploads are relatively rare and even now > there are few strings which are in git but not on TP. For the release of > GRUB it would have meant that some strings have no chance to be > translated. Is it possible to request gnulib pot upload in the same time > as we do our GRUB pot upload?
By "gnulib pot upload" I assume you mean that the Translation Project would make a special effort to translate files containing gnulib messages? If so, I imagine you can write to the TP and ask. gnulib itself doesn't have .pot files; translations are done via the .pot files of projects using gnulib. > 2) Some of gnulib translations use non-UTF-8 but GRUB has a minimal > gettext support which in particular has only UTF-8 support. Could gnulib > scripts be modified to run msgconv or should I do it in my own scripts? > Or simply ignore these translations given that they are often pretty > outdated anyway? I suggest doing the latter. Life is too short to worry about outmoded translation formats.