[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2505) Game end messages not translated

["Jason Short via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 13:37, Reinier Post via RT wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:14:38AM -0800, ChrisK@xxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for the explanation. I'm very interested in a real solution
> > for the i18n problems. But I think you've missed the point:
> > 
> > You are talking about translation problems in general.
> 
> No, Jason is referring to translation of strings generated by the server,
> and sent to the client.  None of them are translated at the moment.

I suspect most of them aren't translated at the moment.  But Chris would
know better than I...

> > And I still don't see the point not to translate them.
> 
> As Jason explained, the client may not be able to display them correctly.

But it is more likely to succeed than with the untranslated strings.

To summarize, I don't think that we _shouldn't_ translate these
strings.  I'm just saying that's not The Answer to the problem.  For
someone looking for a real solution, you should probably look at
Mateusz's patch.

> A solution is to leave the _() mark (or something equivalent) on while
> transmitting them to the client, and expect the client to perform the
> translation.

That won't work for strings that have %d and other formatting characters
(which is probably all of them).

jason