SSS Simple String Substitution

I have posted about non-English translations for the initrd:

http://bkhome.org/news/201901/non-english-support-in-initrd.html

The scripts use 'gettext' to translate text strings, which does bring in some overhead to the initrd, plus complicates the scripts.

A long time ago, I developed "SSS", Simple String Substitution, using sed expressions, which was integrated into MoManager as "SSS domains". This is going back into the mists of time. I did a search, found this:

http://bkhome.org/archive/blog2/201202/racy-build-with-momanager-and-sss.html

MoManager also has some popup help.

These SSS domains are at /usr/share/sss, which includes /usr/share/sss/initrd_strings. This is a text file with sed expressions for translating files in the initrd.

The SSS mechanism is there, but broken. I can fix it for the initrd. This means that when you run MoManager, you can enter the sed translations into file /usr/share/sss/initrd_strings.

Then, when QuickSetup is run and the locale changed, the initrd in the boot partition will be automatically opened up and the files translated.

As I say, the basic structure is there, just way out of date. The plan now is to fix SSS and use it for the initrd, instead of gettext.

I would like to thank Gyle and zigbert who contributed translations for 'easyinitrd.po' -- I can use those strings in the SSS system. 

Tags: easy