[Freeciv-Dev] Re: L10n: get_nation_name - /only/ used as an attribute?

[Sini Ruohomaa <s1071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:28:45PM +0200, Sini Ruohomaa wrote:
(Snipping galore.)
>>> I managed to find an example in English: a confused turk(ish).ruleset.
>>> Is:        name=Turk,    plural=Turks.
>>> Should be: name=Turkish, plural=Turks.
>>> (Assuming Turk is a singular of Turks and not a special way of writing
>>> 'Turkish'.)
> I have no clue about all this but:
>  person:    Scot   (can be replaced with "<adjective> person" like in a
>                     "A Scottish child got injured")
>  people:    Scots
>  adjective: Scottish
>  country:   Scotland
> The scottish ruleset only contains the adjective and the people. The
> single person form may be not needed in freeciv. So do we need an
> extra property (the country/nation)?

  We don't, as far as I can see. I was mostly concerned by the ambiguous
naming of the two properties we do have, which lead to me being
very uncertain as with what on earth they should be translated to (in
order to match all the places it is used in). I suspect the "name"
(returned by get_nation_name) could do with a specification that it's not
the name of the country nor the singular word for a person of the
nationality, but an attribute (~ adjective).

  By the way, are you among the people to convince that the 'nation
selection' screen should use the people and not the adjective? ;)  (See
the thread "Sugg: Make the "select nation" use get_nation_name_plural?",
specifically Michael Stefaniuc's first response to it (with suggested
patch).)

--Sini Ruohomaa