[Lokalizacija] Request to use UTF-8 encoding in bison-runtime

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 15:58:47 CEST 2013


On 04.02.2013 23:14, Tomislav Krznar wrote:

> 2013/2/4 Vedran Miletić <rivanvx at gmail.com>:
>> Vladimir, I don't see GRUB having Croatian translation at all. I
>> looked here: http://translationproject.org/domain/grub.html
>>
>> Is there some other source one should look at?



GRUB doesn't but the bison-runtime is usedx in GRUB. Of course Croatian
translation of GRUB would be welcome.

>>
>> Regards,
>> Vedran
>>
>> 2012/3/24 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder at gmail.com>:
>>> (Resending after subscribing so it will hopefully reach the lists this time)
>>>
>>> On 24.03.2012 01:52, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello, all. In GRUB we use bison parser. GRUB itself is localised (if you
>>>> want to translate it to your language template is available from TP it would
>>>> be most welcome). But bison parser wasn't localised due to GRUB previously
>>>> supporting only one domain, now I've changed that and making it to pick up
>>>> bison-runtime translation. But then comes another problem: Romanian,
>>>> Estonian, Turkish and Croatian translation use non-UTF-8 non-latin1 charset.
>>>> Adding ISO8859-2/-9/-15 support into GRUB would be counter-productive as the
>>>> size of needed tables is comparable with the respective message catalog.
>>>> Dates on po indicate that this encoding use is probably a leftover from
>>>> early days. Would it be possible to convert them to UTF-8. To do so you need
>>>> just to:
>>>> msgconv -t UTF-8 bison-runtime-2.5.ll.po -o new_bison-runtime-2.5.ll.po
>>>> (replace ll with language code)
>>>> and upload the new file
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards
>>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>>
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> 
> As I can see, bison-runtime-2.5.hr.po is UTF-8 encoded:
> 
> $ file bison-runtime-2.5.hr.po
> bison-runtime-2.5.hr.po: GNU gettext message catalogue, UTF-8 Unicode text
> 
> Am I missing something here?



Looks like it was converted since the original request

> 
> Regards,
> Tomislav
> 







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