[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Nations policy

[Stig Erik Sandoe <stig@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Robert Brady wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Stig Erik Sandoe wrote:
> 
> > And as mentioned earlier, even firstnames are translated in various
> > languages, and at least english, danish, swedish and norwegian do
> > this.  The full names of the leaders should be translatable with the
> > country's own spelling as default.  This will probably require a
> > en.po though, as english is really keen on translating names :-)
> 
> How does this interact with custom names and different locales on the
> server/clients?
> 
> i.e
>   server  , en_US
>   client1 , sv_SE
>   client2 , de_CH
> 
> client1, playing the Swedish, enters the custom name "Juan", which happens
> to be a famous leader of (say), the Mexicans, who is for whatever reason
> usually called "John", in the US.
> 
> Should this get translated?

If the player selects 'Louis XIV' and the other player is e.g dutch
and the dutch translation translates this name to e.g 'Lodewijk XIV'
I think it should be translated.. just as 'Charlemagne' is
translated to 'Karel de Grote' in dutch and 'Karl den Store' in
norwegian.  Or one can make translation only on AI-players..  

But if a name is translatable it should be translated, preferrably
the full name and not just the firstname.

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