Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm)

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi Robert,

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:10:15PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> +      char *prelude = "   The highlighted entry will be booted automatically 
> in";
> +      grub_printf ("%s %ds.    ", second_stage ? "" : prelude, timeout);

As you feared, this is not nice from a i18n POV. Concatenating strings
like this will make the message untranslatable for a number of
languages.

> -       grub_printf ("\
> -   The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in %d s.    ",
> -                    timeout);

This one is ok, though.

Jordi
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