On 15.09.2012 16:03, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Currently grub-mkconfig is using current (at the time of invocation) > locale to > > 1. output status messages during invocation > 2. put translated messages (verbatim) into generated grub.cfg > 3. set language in grub.cfg (set lang) > > The problem is, user locale at the time of invocation does not > necessarily correspond to default system locale. This becomes even more > extreme as SSH and su/sudo often pass through locale environment > variables by default; so user locale may be inherited from unpredictable > value set on remote system. > > Now imagine Chinese customer support employee remotely invoking > grub-mkconfig for European customer ... > > It seems that case 1 and 2/3 should be treated differently. Suggestion > is > > - export GRUB_LANG in grub-mkconfig for use in /etc/grub.d scripts. > GRUB_LANG is supposed to be set to system wide default. This may be set > by distributions in /etc/default/grub when system locale is changed or > determined dynamically from existing configuration. > > - provide convenience wrapper for scripts in /etc/grub.d which basically > does LC_MESSAGES=$GRUB_LANG gettext ... > > Does it sound sensible? >
Just set LC_ALL/LC_MESSAGES in /etc/default/grub. I don't see a reason to have a separate variable for this in etc/default/grub if you can just set standard ones there. > -andrey > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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