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

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:26:20AM -0700, Marcelo Burda wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6979 >
> 
> > [i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Lun. Jan. 19 11:08:11 2004]:
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:43:03AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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> > 
> > It isn't caused by the server but by the client. The client expands
> > the string because of utf-8. See also PR#7226 which we discussed on
> > IRC.
> > 
> > The real solution is to change the code from measuring bytes to
> > measuring characters.
> > 
> >     Raimar
> > 
> HI,
> soon i ll be with a psicologic problem: i am writing export LANG=en_US
> any time!
> for somebody with local in french this bug is ugly!
> Marcelo

See PR#1824 for the current incarnation of the problem and proposed
solutions.

        Raimar

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