Re: [Gnu-tr-u12a] Request to use UTF-8 encoding in bison-runtime

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/p. S. <ph...@gm...>]

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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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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko