[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#6979) too long translated string causes client crash

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6979 >

> [eneg - Sat Nov 29 00:00:40 2003]:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I had a client crash when starting game :
> 
> 1: Essaye de prendre le jeu de texture "isotrident".
> 2: LANGUAGE="fr-fr"
> 1: Translated name is too long, truncating: Société de commerce de A.
Smith
> civclient: shared.c:606: check_strlen:  l'assertion « 0 » a échoué.

Can you give a backtrace?

> This can be solved with modifing the .po file but maybe it's not the
> good way ? 

Until this is solved either you should change the .po file or the assert
should be removed.

> That only happens with the gtk2 client and not with the gtk one.

Only by chance.  In the future all clients will be susceptible.

jason