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


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:18:55 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:32:25PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 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.

Is this better?

-- 
Robert Millan

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<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
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