On 1/27/09, Susanna Björverud <[email protected]> wrote: > tis 2009-01-27 klockan 00:03 -0500 skrev Madeline Book: > >> On 1/22/09, Sini Ruohomaa <[email protected]> wrote: >> > to, 2009-01-22 kello 19:37 -0500, Madeline Book kirjoitti: >> > [nation adjective vs. plural in main window] >> >> Actually I checked in trunk and it would appear this has been fixed >> >> already. The frame label uses the nation plural name and so also >> >> has the first letter capitalized (at least that is the case in >> >> English). >> > >> > Excellent! Alas, there can be no such easy capitalization in the Finnish >> > translation, >> >> What I could do is add code that would capitalize the first letter >> of the frame label; I think this is safe to do, i.e. it won't >> inadvertently >> corrupt some utf8, but I will of course check this when making the >> patch. >> > > As long as languages that do not have such a things as capitalization > (like the Asian languages) do not get broken that would be very nice > indeed. Please also take into account that there might be strings > existing right now that only differ on the case of the initial, and that > it might in fact be individual translations that have translated the uc > inital version but not the other. Simply removing the upper case initial > versions would then mean that we would in fact lose some translations.
Actually, the code first retrieves the translated string, then changes the first character to upper case, with no effect if an upper case form does not exist. If anyone can think of a problem with this approach, the ticket is here: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40692 > When I was working on translating wesnoth, which also use gettext, a > tweak was made to allow full variable names instead of simple > placeholders, cf > http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/po/wesnoth/wesnoth.pot?view=markup > so that a msgid could be f ex msgid "(press $hotkey to keep moving)", which > then would be translated as f ex msgstr "(tryck $hotkey för att fortsätta)". > Variable name from $ until white space (or non-letter??) or | iirc. I really > liked this way of conveying to the translators (and to later coders!) what > the intent of the message was. I THINK the relevant pieces of code are > vgettext/vngettext; which wraps around gettext and > interpolate_variables_into_string (cf. > http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/wesnoth/trunk/src/formula_string_utils.cpp) if > you are interested in how they did it. I have no idea how complex > integrating such a system in Freeciv would be... Without the type safety of c++ and the well tuned data structures in the stl this would be an interesting challenge to implement. I'll think about it. :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 誰かマクガイバーを呼んでくれ。 _______________________________________________ Freeciv-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-i18n
