[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Translation of log levels

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:42:17PM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:56:58PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:46:11PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:38:50AM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:32:33PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > > > Is it really usefull to translate log messages with loglevel > 2 ?
> > > > > (GAMELOG_*).
> > > > 
> > > > Do you mean freelog calls or gamelog calls? 
> > > 
> > > I think I mean gamelog calls - like:
> > > 
> > >   msgid "%s (%s) (%i,%i) destroyed by %s"
> > >   msgid "%s (%s) (%i,%i) conquered by %s"
> > > > IMHO all gamelog calls should be translated (there are around 40).
> > > 
> > > What is the purpose of these?
> > 
> > To log information?!

I guessed.

> > 
> > See <http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200204/msg00102.html>.
> > 
> >     Raimar

So 3 maintainers are for it (have it translated), but no "why".

I can't imagine someone's sitting down after a game and read the 
gamelog 8-)  Instead, you'd push it through a script for statistical
analysis or visualisation, wouldn't you? And it's probably easier to 
parse the English text.

> 
> The purpose is to offer a Civ I-like post-game report.  See
> 
>   http://www.math.ttu.edu/~kesinger/freeciv/

So I would have to run the civserver in English to take benefit
of this visualisation?

> It is also used for the scoring mechanism on civserver.freeciv.org now.
> 
> -- 
> Reinier

Christian

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