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David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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[Freeciv-Dev] Re: ideas for some i18n problems (was: call for updated translations) |
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Egbert Hinzen <egbert@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:11:59 +0200 (MEST) |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, David Pfitzner wrote:
> Hmm, big CC list :-)
> is on freeciv-dev, or should we make another mailing list
> (eg, freeciv-nls?) for this sort of traffic?
I would like freeciv-nls.
Idea: Why not start a news server at freeciv.org with only some freeciv
groups? That would give you the possibility to download only messages (and
attachments) you like. This could be started at once - incoming mails to
the lists could be redirected to news.
> (It seems to me once you get to this stage, a more pressing
> problem is going to be word order, for messages where multiple
> components are assembled. (The gettext docs had something about
> this, but I didn't understand it, or at least didn't understand
> how it could work, in general.))
At most places it isn't a problem:
If you have sentence like "%s has %d Settler."
you can change the %places "%2$d Settler are owned by %1$s".
But AFAIK if you start with s.th. like "%2d: %s of %s." you can not change
that. (I tried it and it compiles fine and all runs until this message
should be displayed - then at least the server crashes.
But there are only a few phrases of that kind - maybe programmers don't
have to use them in the original messages at all.
--
Egbert Hinzen
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