[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Mac OS X

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Brazil wrote:
> Okay.  So I've got Freeciv to build with NLS support.  However, I am 
> seeing some issues:
> 
> 1.  --enable-nls seems to be incompatible with libreadline, as I've  had
> to also specify --without-readline in order to compile, at least  on Mac
> OS X.  Has anyone else seen this?

I've never heard of this; usually the problems come when readline is
disabled since that gets much less testing.  What are the values of the
*READLINE* macros and SOCKET_ZERO_ISNT_STDIN in your config.h?

> 2. Many of the translations seem ... incomplete.  That is, while some 
> text might appear in the native languages, many still appear as 
> English.  Is this just the current state of these translations?

For 2.0 there are a lot of languages that are basically 100% complete.
See http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Special:PoStatsStable .  Remember
that some translations are done through GTK; maybe it is these that are
failing.

> 3. I can get most Roman languages to work, but I cannot seem to get 
> Japanese to work.  Is there some issue w/ Unicode, or is it just my 
> system?

The gtk2 client should work easily with all character sets.  However you
probably don't have the japanese kanji fonts so those characters will be
displayed as garbage.  On my system I had to install kochi (IIRC) fonts
before japanese would be displayed properly.

-jason