Hi, Michael,

On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 23:07 +0100, Michael Bauer wrote:
> Some menu items like Yes/No, Cancel/OK were in English, I assume that
> is down to us cheating with this pre-release and that as long as
> they're translated, they'll appear in Gaelic?

I was wondering if this is actually maybe caused by some widgets being
inherited from other packages - I'm not familiar with how Freeciv does
it since it's cross-platform, but e.g. many Gnome games share the
translations of simple button widgets etc. across the Gnome software
family - that is, they're not translated for every package separately. 

Then, if you have your system language set as Gaelic and translations
exist for these general widgets, they would appear in the correct
language, but if you were setting the language for Freeciv specifically
or didn't have the inherited translations, they'd be in the system
default language. (I seem to recall there was a graphical GTK client,
and GTK might well have standard default widgets for ok/cancel/yes/no.)

This is just a possibility, though - Freeciv is cross-platform unlike
the Gnome software I learned this possibility from, so I'm not sure if
it takes/can take advantage of shared translations on the different
platforms.

(For the sound effects and tech pics, I have no clue really, it's ages
since I actually got around to playing Freeciv. I think you may have to
install a separate sound package, but I have a vague memory that we
maybe do have sounds.)

Thanks for livening up the discussion on this list, by the way! It makes
me itch to do something about the nation text translations to Finnish
again, even though it's slooooooow goooooing looking everything up on
Wikipedia. :)

--Sini


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