[Freeciv-Dev] Re: new player dialog

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:43:42PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:

> Could you please check if the problem only occurs in the new
> players report? Because as Raimar described it it seems to be
> a generell problem of the german translation - and not of the
> dialog itself.

But the length of strings in translated dialogs is a hard problem.
How hard would it be to have an option on dialogs to automatically
shorten the string (replacing the characters in the middle with ...)
when they grow beyond a maximum size?

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Reinier