Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:33 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Jordi Mallach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:18:55AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> >> Is this better? >> >> + char *msg = " The highlighted entry will be booted automatically >> >> in %ds. "; >> >> + char *msg_end = grub_strchr (msg, '%'); >> >> + >> >> + grub_printf (second_stage ? msg_end : msg, timeout); >> > >> > Yes; however as discussed on IRC we'll eventually have to take into >> > account plural form handling. I need to discuss this with Danilo Segan >> > or Christian Perrier for this particular case. >> >> Is gettext capable of this? > > Yes. It's very good at it. But I don't know how heavy the runtime part > is going to be. I don't think we can just link a library into GRUB, so > perhaps it will need to be copied to the GRUB sources and stripped down. > > But I still think it would be an overkill. Even the Linux kernel > doesn't offer any translation for its boot messages. > > And if we go with the translation, I think it should be possible for any > language to rephrase messages in a way that would not require plural > handling.
If done efficiently, code shouldn't get too big. Perhaps it is better to integrate this into normal.mod? I wouldn't mind a few extra KB there for such a feature. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
