[Freeciv-Dev] Re: notify_player rewrite

[Lauri Tarkkala <ltarkkal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:02:21AM +0200, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Lauri Tarkkala wrote:
> The server and the client may not be using the same language (locale). How
> do your parse that?

Uh.. 

I may have overlooked some slight details in my previous post. For
localization purposes, an abstraction layer is obviously
required inbetween, which probably would be undesirable
to base on a natural language.

Yet, when I grep the code in server/*.c, it seems like
all the notify_player() arguments are specified in plain
english, like:

> notify_player_ex(unit_owner(punit), src_x, src_y,
>                  E_NOEVENT, _("Game: Only %s can attack from sea."),
>                  units_str);

Where do locales come into play? Is this not the string which
is received by the client?

BTW,

My editor/terminal/terminfo obviously did not co-operate very well 
in my previous post. I hope nobody got thrown off by a couple
incoherent and out-of-place sentences...

Lauri

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