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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:19:51AM +0200, Sini Ruohomaa wrote:
> 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).

Ok.

>   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).)

I have no hard opinion about this. The question is: does the player
choose to be "The Scottish ruler" or does the player choose to "Rule
the Scots".

        Raimar

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