[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14731) Demographics report and localization

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasco.costa@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14731 >

On 11/30/05, Jason Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14731 >
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> Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14731 >
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> > When you translate the demographic strings (e.g. Population, Land Area
> > etc) they have to retain the relative length as the English originals,
> > otherwise the demographics report's columns become shifted (see
> > screen.)
> >
> > This patch for server/report.c add ?demographics: to the affected
> > strings, allowing translators add extra whitespaces where needed to
> > adjust them.
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> This would be easy to fix in code.

The existing demographics report is an ugly hack. It should use its
own report dialog, and
the report should refresh automatically every turn, instead of
requiring you to close and
open the report again by hand.