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To: Dmitriy Genzel <udgenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jarda Benkovsky <pvt.benkovsk@xxxxxxxxx>, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: New nation: Croatians
From: Gerhard Killesreiter <killesreiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 17 Aug 2000 21:40:59 +0200 
* "Dmitriy" == Dmitriy Genzel schrieb am Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:23:28 -0400 (EDT):

> Let me add: in the same sentence. If you have a sentence "%s needs
> an Aqueduct" - translated into russian, and %s replaced by 8-bit
> polish city name, you'd have 2 different 8-bit encodings in the same
> sentence.

ACK.

> How would you deal with that, considering the fact that
> gettext has no idea what encoding the .po/.mo file has?

To be honest I have no clue :-(

OTOH I proposed to write a wrapper function fpr printf that could
handle the case problem in translations by substituting %s by an
array. Maybe this approach could be used to fix the font problem as
well.
Cheers,
        Gerhard
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