Re: grub-mkconfig locale vs. boot-time grub locale

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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
> 
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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