Hello. Welcome back and your work is appreciated. I will look at the patch
later (In couple minutes I go to sleep)
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany <car...@pina.cat>wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Last January I sent a patch to add gettext support. When I had time, the
> list was not very, and afterwards I didn't have time.
>
> Hopefully from now on and during next weeks I will have some time to
> follow up the discussion, make changes, etc. (not exactly everyday but I
> will be able to do, I hope).
>
> Find attached the patch that you can apply with the last version.
> Surprisingly, after resolving a couple of conflicts, it works like last
> January.
>
> General design:
> a) I did a new module called gettext. It uses locale_prefix and lang
> variables to locate the .mo file
>
> b) Some strings in Grub (currently only one) uses _("") function to
> translate the text. This is a hook function that returns the same text
> when the gettext module is not loaded or the translation when it's
> loaded
>
> gettext module parses the .mo file without using hash and using
> bisection for the searching (if I remember correctly).
>
> The scripts that generates menu.lst also supports (at least some)
> gettext support from Bash/Shell itself.
>
> Here you can read the ChangeLog:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-01/msg00118.html and
> more instructions
>
> In that thread we talked about some encoding problem. As Niels (I think)
> suggested, after setting up the Charset in the .po file it's working
> fine.
>
> Right now you would need to "compile" the .po file to .mo file by hand
> (directory grub2/po) and then copy to the correct place in your
> /usr/share directory, like:
> /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
>
> (you can use this location with this menu.lst:
> set locale_prefix=/usr/share/locale
> set lang=ca
> insmod gettext
> )
>
> Comments for next steps to commit the patch are welcomed.
> (maybe I need to setup the "path" to access to /usr/share/locale in the
> Grub installation script in grub.cfg -e.g. search --fs-uuid ...- or we
> can do it afterwards?)
>
I already commented on this issue: simply don't use /usr. It may be
inacessible (e.g. encrypted). Just make grub-install to copy locale files to
$prefix or to $prefix/locale and then you don't need a separate variable for
locale prefix (just use $prefix or $prefix/locale)
>
> Thanks,
>
> PS: any Grub developer living/working in London?
>
> --
> Carles Pina i Estany
> http://pinux.info
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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