gettext in scripts

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Hello, all. It was requested to have a way to gettextize Super GRUB 
disk. Original request was to extend gettext with -s options but it may 
result in a mess to temporary variables. So I'd propose to rather use 
$"..." syntax with the exception that we don't expand it after 
translation to avoid some pitfalls. Sharing syntax with bash will allow 
to use normal xgettext --language=Shell.
The real problem is as to how to include SGD strings in grub.pot. I see 
following solutions:
1) Merge projects and put SGD inside GRUB2. It's possible if its authors 
want it but many more questions would need to be discussed.
2) Import sgd.pot into grub.pot regularly. This creates an 
administrative overhead and requires GRUB and scripts to have matching 
versions. I don't know if it's easy to merge .pot files
3) Just have a few strings for usage by external projects. This would 
heavily limit the extent of internationalisation and would result in a 
lot of feature requests one after another for this or that string.
4) Have some way to load .mo from another directory. Perhaps something 
like locale_dirs=$dir1:$dir2:$dir3. This creates some problems as to how 
and when to load files and how to store them. The easiest way consisting 
of having multiple opened gettext files and try each of it in turn. 
Trouble is that then when adding a single directory we need to either 
reload all files or compare the previous list with current to reload 
only changed directories.
Any other ideas?

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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