[Freeciv-Dev] Re: I18n problems

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Claus Leth Gregersen" <leth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The obvious cure is to add translation for english aswell.
> Since the default string, is the (english) index-string, you won't have to
> add translation for anything
> but these kinds of string.
> So use "your_name" "player_name" "city_name" etc., in the code, and
> translate it to "name" in the tiny english translation, and to whatever it's
> called in polish etc.

Except it would be best to keep such name mangling minimal, so 
that results are still acceptable when compiled without NLS, or 
when message catalogues are not installed, or if translations
for non-English are not updated yet to do such words, etc.

Adding spaces or underscores may work, and would be sufficiently 
obscure/confusing... :-/

-- David