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

[Vedran Miletić]

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?

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)
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> 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.
>>
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