[Freeciv-Dev] Re: City dialog too large

[Egbert Hinzen <egbert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 06:53:20PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> >
> > In the german translation the new city dialog has a width of 754 while
> > the english one has a width of 570. This has annoyed me for a long
> > time. The attached patch shows the increase of the translation of
> > strings which are used in the city dialog.
>
> The problem is known, the reason not.

BTW: As rule by the thumb German translations of English texts are about
one third bigger (570 * 1.33 = 758)...


> > This means that the german translation of 'Show future targets' is 28
> > chars longer than the original.
>
> But this doesn't harm, does it?

I don't like it, too, but I don't see any problem...


> > It turns out that 'Disband if build
> > settler at size 1' is the problem. If it is shortened the dialog will
> > also get a width of 570. Since I noticed that the dialog is also
> > bigger in the Dutch translation I attached the patch.

I shortened the German text by 6 signs. Does this solve the "problem"?

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