[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Message translation problem

["Pieter J. Kersten" <kersten@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:28:29AM +0200, Pieter J. Kersten wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:39:27PM +0200, Pieter J. Kersten wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > "Pieter J. Kersten" wrote:
> > > > > > I'm having troubles with a string that doesn't get translated in the
> > > > > > software. I'm speaking of the string 'Great philosophers...'. Since 
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > addition of the string 'Great scientists...' which is almost 
> > > > > > identical,
> > > > > > the string ends up in plain english. The message *is* translated 
> > > > > > however
> > > > > > in the nl.po file. No matter what I change, this problem stands. 
> > > > > > Right
> > > > > > now, I'me clueless.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can someone help me with this?
> [snip]
> >
> > That may be true for the da.po file, but I was talking about the du.po
> > file. ;-)
> You mean nl.po ;)

You're absolutely right.

>
> > > That was changed to "Great scientists ..." . You need to merge the code 
> > > changes
> > > into the da.po file. Just do a (in a fresh CVS extract)
> > > cd freeciv/po
> > > make da.pox
> > > After reviewing da.pox you can move it to da.po . This will give you the
> > > (now) correct entry for "Game: Great philosophers ...":
> > > #: data/default/techs.ruleset:409
> > > msgid ""
> > > "Great philosophers ..."
> > >
> >
> > I've done that several times, even with removing the msgid/str completely
> > beforehand, to be certain that the string would be the one in the source
> > files. All to no avail. So, I'm still clueless.
> > But thanx anyway.
> Duh ... sorry. As an indemnification I haunted the bug down and attached
> a patch. Please try it (I tested it myself and it works).
>

That solves it! Can you make sure this patch makes it into CVS too?

Thank you very much.
-- 
Pieter J. Kersten