[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#19040) Rulesets with identical strings for multiple meanings

["Daniel Markstedt" <markstedt@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19040 >

> [sini.ruohomaa@xxxxxx - Mon Jul 31 10:01:03 2006]:
> 
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 18:50 -0700, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19040 >
> [2: Identical strings for multiple meanings for nations, e.g. Hacker
> for
> nation + male ruler name]
> > The rulesets affected that I could spot on a quick glance:
> > > * hacker
> > > * european
> > What exactly is the problem with European? The 'European' nation
> group is
> > distinguished with ?nationgroup:
> 
> It seems it's not caused by the same thing; I just noticed the effects
> in the po/pot and missed that. The "European" string, without ?s, is
> in
> all rulesets of people within Europe on line 5 (e.g. the Finnish
> ruleset), while it's on line 3 in the European ruleset. I'd guess line
> 5
> does some kind of grouping among nations, like a bunch of rulesets
> have
> "Medieval" there. But the European ruleset uses the same string in
> strings like "The %s %s crashes" ("European", "fighter plane").
> 
> I need to translate the line-3-sort-of European to 'belonging to the
> European people' to make sense in those messages*, while it's kind of
> stuffy to say of the line-5-sort that the Finnish nation is one of the
> nations belonging to the European people. I'd more prefer to say that
> it's, um, well, "European".
> 

Good thing that you pointed that out. It turns out that 'line-5
European' shouldn't be marked as translatable anymore. For the time
being, just translate the plain 'European' string as the "European
people" - same thing goes for plain 'American' BTW.


--Daniel