Re: grub_error messages

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:19:16PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>   
>> b) At beginning I thought that we would not gettext error messages, but
>> I see that lot of these messages appears to the end user. Do we gettext
>> using N_(" ") and then where it's printed I use _(" ") ? I would say
>> yes.
>>     
>
> No! Don't use any of N_() or _() if the message isn't meant to be translated.
> If it's extracted into the pot file but then it's not used by GRUB (not
> being marked with the necessary gettext call), it's a waste of time for
> translators, of course.
>
>   
Jordi, I think you misunderstand. What Carles propose is to do real
gettext call in grub_error and not before calling it. We already use N_
for this purpose.


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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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