[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 >

I'm closing this ticket now because most of the issues has been
resolved. A few final comments:

>But this is where -i18n comes in: hands up, folks, if you have a problem
>with translating female and male ruler both to one string. Some of the
>English original strings are identical for both, which means gettext
>won't pull them apart unless "female?" is added to the other. It's not a
>problem for Finnish, but how about languages where there's more
>tradition for explicit gendering? 

In fairness, a whole lot of ?female: qualifiers were added to the dev
branch a while back as requested by Frédéric Rodrigo (our French
translator) in PR#17397. If more are needed, he or any of the
translators for languages that has male/female gender can request it again.

>Also, several rulesets have overlapping ruler titles, which can cause
>problems when e.g. "Chieftain" might not quite be translateable as
>'tribal chieftain' for all nations, but just translating it as a neutral
>'leader' for all would be boring. But this is a lesser problem.

IMHO you should translate it as "tribal chieftain" - the comical effect
of having a diplomatic meeting with "Chieftain Charles de Gaulle"
sometime in prehistory is just one of the charms of the Civ series!

Finally, as you point out we sorely need support for more grammatical
forms of nation names. Especially genitive forms are badly needed in the
Swedish translation for example. The former Swedish translator wrote a
patch to implement this back in 2000:

http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-dev%40freeciv.org/2000/08/msg00493.html.gz
http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-dev%40freeciv.org/2000/09/msg00018.html.gz

For another ticket though!


--Daniel