Re: problem with dutch translation of grub

[Pixel]

Thierry Laronde <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:06:54PM +0100, Gerben Dierick wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > When booting, Grub displays its menu and starts counting down the timeout. 
> > This is where the problem is. For each new value of the seconds (%d in the 
> > /boot/grub/messages file), a new line saying "default os is booted in xx 
> > seconds" in dutch is displayed. So in stead of a line in which the seconds 
> > change, you always get a new line.
> > These new lines mess up the menu which doesn't work any more.
> 
> This "feature" doesn't belong to the vanilla GRUB, this is something
> modified by the Mandrake developers. I think they read the list, but can

yep. I missed the previous one, but caught yours. I'm gonna add a checker for
the po's that verify translations of bootloader messages are not too long.
And also truncate lines when if it's still wrong.

thanks, cu Pixel.