[Freeciv-Dev] Re: roman.ruleset & french.ruleset patchs

[mathieu <yeupou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mer 19 sep 2001 à 17h08, Michael Stefaniuc a écrit :
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:40:03PM +0200, mathieu wrote:
> > > I got them. Problem is that I have no clue about this. I don't know
> if
> > > it is valid to use non 7bit ascii chars like in "Napoléon" nor do I
> > > know latin. I have to rely my judgment on the opinion of other
> > > people. So far nobody has commented.
> > 
> > about the latin names of roman leaders, you can get any history book
> (made
> > by historians of course) about the period, you'll see theses names.
> It's
> > really better to use this names as we desire play as roman (and not as
> > other people seeing romans).
> The names are Ok.
> 
> > About Napoléon, if you can't use non 7bit ascii chars with gettext, so
> > leave it without.
> gettext is 8bit clean and you would get "Napol\351on" as msgid.
> You have to write _("Napoléon") to mark it for gettext. And you need to
> mark it because in iso-latin-7 (Latin/Greek) the char 0351 (0xE9) is
> GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA and not LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE.
> 
> 
> > Since software internationalized in french (as freeciv) have
> translation
> > with non 7bit ascii chars, we can suppose that it works fine.
> > 
> > Also, are the names translated in po files ? If not, you must writing
> > Napoléon as we write it in french. If files are translated, you can put
> > Napoleon without "é" if you want.
> If you mark the names for gettext then they will appear in the po file
> after the next msmerge.
> 
> I just checked the freeciv/data/nation/*.rulset and that are a lot of
> names (mostly) city names that use characters greater than 0xA0 without
> being marked for gettext. That means for all extended ASCII (excepting
> iso-latin-1 and iso-latin-15) the names are displayed wrong.
> I could make a patch to mark all this names for gettext but this will
> bloat the po files a little. And the translator has a problem to find a
> good replacement if his charset dosn't contain the offendet char.
> The best way would be to use unicode and we wouldn't have to care to
> "translate" the names.
> 
> bye
>       michael
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