Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch: registry improvements (PR#98)

[David Perez Serrada <dperezs@xxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, David Pfitzner wrote:

> I don't really understand your explanation, could you 
> try again?
I'll try to do my best with my poor english :(

In your patch, you mark multiline and i18n strings in the
following way:

- -------- a ruleset file -----
wellcome=_("This is Freeciv
 version 2.3 :-)")
- -----------------------------

wich is parsed by freeciv, to one line string, as:

wellcome=_("This is Freeciv\nversion 2.3 :-)")

then the translatable string is fetch by xgettext and added to
freeciv.pot file as following:

msgid="This is Freeciv"

¿What has happend?. xgettext fetch the string from the ruleset
file, and takes a new line as an end of a string, so only the first
line of a multiline string is get. 

Try it. Add this string in a ruleset file, add the ruleset file
in the POTFILES.in, and do a 'make' in the po directory. Then take a look
at po/freeciv.pot:

- ----- freciv.pot ----

msgid="This is freeciv"

- ----------------------

> Or better, can you say how such strings should appear in 
> the ruleset file (and/or be handled by the registry parser,
> if thats the problem) to work well with gettext?
Freeciv should write multines strings as same as do gettext.
So in the previous example, should be done as following:

- ----- a ruleset file ----

wellcome= _("This is Freeciv "
            "version 2.3 :-)")

- --------------------------

That sould be parsed as:

wellcome=_("This is Freeciv version 2.3 :-)")

by freeciv, when parsing the ruleset file. This is, the same string as
fetched by xggetext program.

Try it. Add the new wellcome string to a ruleset file, add the file
to po/POTFILES.in and parse it with xgettext. Then take a look to
po/freeciv.pot:

msgid="This is Freeciv version 2.3 :-)"

I hope this would be enough.

                      Ta otra....        David


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