[Freeciv-Dev] Re: new player dialog

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Reinier Post wrote:

> 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?

IMHO these are problems for the translators (finding short enough
strings). Adding ... could work sometimes but it could make it worse some
other times.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa