[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8709) swiss ruleset

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8709 >

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:45:00PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> Also, you can't have a long string like "?female:President of the
> Confederation".

For technical reasons?

> Also, why have a male and female "Priest" for fundamentalism instead of
> "Priest" and "Priestess"?

Good point.

> And, why the changes to the ruler titles at all?  What's the difference
> between "President" and "President of the Confederation" or "High
> Priest" and "Priest"?

Adaptations to lokal history I think. Isn't this the point in rulesets?

> If the goal is to be able to get different Swiss translations, that's
> okay.  In that case I think you should do something like
> 
> "?swiss/male:President", "?swiss/female:President"
> "?swiss/male:High Priest", "?swiss/female:High Priest"

I suggested this to Beni to get different translations for female/male, as
it is necessary in many languages (except english). Are there other ways to
do that?

Christian

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