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Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm)
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm) |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:18:19 -0500 |
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 11:33 +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Jordi Mallach <address@hidden> 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.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), (continued)
Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Jordi Mallach, 2008/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Robert Millan, 2008/01/14
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Jordi Mallach, 2008/01/15
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm),
Pavel Roskin <=
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Robert Millan, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Robert Millan, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Marco Gerards, 2008/01/21
- Re: [PATCH] fix flickering timeout message for slow terminals (gfxterm), Robert Millan, 2008/01/21