URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34980>
Summary: Promotion in play at ICS fails with localized Xboard
Project: XBoard
Submitted by: bjensen
Submitted on: Sat 03 Dec 2011 09:49:39 PM GMT
Category: XBoard (X11)
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
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Details:
Hi,
I just tried the Danish version of Xboard 4.6.0.20111101 playing at FICS
(freechess.org).
When I tried to promote a pawn using the promotion pop up window, I got an
illegal move response from FICS.
Fortunately I had time to switch to "Almost Always Queen", which worked fine
so I could win the game. :)
Anyway I looked at the function PromotionCallback() in xboard.c and found this
code:
if (strcmp(name, _("Knight")) == 0) {
promoChar = 'n';
} else if (strcmp(name, _("Promote")) == 0) {
promoChar = '+';
} else if (strcmp(name, _("Defer")) == 0) {
promoChar = '=';
} else {
promoChar = ToLower(name[0]);
}
So it seems that the variable name contains the translated name of the piece,
and in that case you cannot just send the lowercase version of the first
character to the ICS.
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