URL:
<http://gna.org/bugs/?20268>
Summary: Make it possible for Wesnoth to provide month name
translations and the like
Project: Battle for Wesnoth
Submitted by: espreon
Submitted on: Sat 27 Oct 2012 04:08:56 PM GMT
Category: Bug
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: None of the others
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 1.11.x (and 1.10.x)
Operating System: *
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Details:
To (help) ensure that the messages from the following threads do not become
lost in the sands of time and to expand on them, I have filed this bug
report.
Threads:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=37726
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37730
Basically, right now, the game relies on the system for translations of the
names of days and months and for things such as "AM" and "PM". However, if one
is using a translation to a minority or dead language, the system likely won't
have any translations to give the game nor will it likely ever get
translations to give.
In addition, for "AM" and "PM", the game currently attempts to draw
translations from the current internally-set locale, but for some
translations, this typically results in failure (on systems using glibc, at
least). For example, using the Spanish translation currently has the game
internally set "es_ES", thus for Spanish Spanish. Since the Spanish don't use
the twelve-hour clock anymore, the es_ES glibc locale doesn't provide any data
whatsoever for "AM" and "PM", thus one who wishes to use Wesnoth's twelve-hour
clock setting along with the Spanish translation will have nothing in
"AM"/"PM"'s place; one will get "12:00" for "12:00 AM" or "12:00 PM". But
since Spanish is spoken in many nations, some of which, such as Mexico, do
still use the twelve-hour clock, thus it is a real problem. A similar problem
can be observed with using the British English translation on a system using
glibc (an older version of glibc from say... 2011, at least); for the longest
time, glibc's maintainer has refused to allow data for "AM" and "PM" to enter
the en_GB locale's data file, despite the fact that normal people in the UK
still use the twelve-hour clock.
So, at the bare minimum (hopefully, I'm not missing anything), we need a way
of providing translations for the following:
- Names of days
- Names of months
- Abbreviated names of days
- Abbreviated names of months
- "AM" and "PM"
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