[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2374) multi-language client-server patch

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:05:50PM +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:57:30AM -0800, Jason Short via RT wrote:
> > 
> > [rfalke - Thu Nov 21 17:00:09 2002]:
> > 
> > > + It works just like printf, but instead of '%' it uses
> > > + '^' (We don't want to confuse msgfmt).
> > 
> > How does msgfmt get confused?  Is there any other way to avoid it
> > besides changing the meta-character?
> > 
> > Changing the meta-character will result in a large number of texts
> > needing to be retranslated.  The new translation may just mean changing
> > the meta-character of the MSGSTR, but I don't know how easy this process
> > will be.
> 
> If you use a different meta character for server and client, this also
> probably means that many string, currently used by both client and server,
> have to appear *twice* in *.po.

the change of meta-character makes this unacceptable in my opinion. A way
should be found to use % without confusing msgfmt too badly.

-mike