Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems -- eliminated

2007-12-26 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > Committed S2_1 revision 14203 with po massaging and update-po. Committed S2_2 revision 14204. Committed trunk revision 14205. After running update-po (my very first time), there are about 46 of my hand manufactured fuzzies from this batch of

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems

2007-12-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > Here's the S2_2 patch to convert the 55 remaining "%s's" to "the %s" and use the nation_adjective instead of the player->name. For 2.1, I'll massage the po files, too. It is rather tedious. Hold off working on translations for today until

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems

2007-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > Daniel Markstedt wrote: >> This is something I can do for 2.1.2 this week. >> > In the scope of S2_1? > Fixing translations was in the scope. But it sounds like you're discouraging it, so I'll wait. > Fine, but please communicate with the

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems

2007-12-16 Thread Daniel Markstedt
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > On Dec 17, 2007 7:15 AM, William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > > > Daniel Markstedt wrote: > > Agreed. This was actually discussed last year or early this year, but > > not

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems

2007-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > Daniel Markstedt wrote: > Agreed. This was actually discussed last year or early this year, but > nothing came out of it at the time. Using the nation name would also > have the benefit of making it easier to figure out what player the > mess

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems

2007-12-16 Thread Daniel Markstedt
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > On Dec 17, 2007 2:39 AM, William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > > > An answer to much of the problem might be to use nation names instead of > player (ruler) names. That wo

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39971) BUG: i18n possessive problems

2007-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39971 > An answer to much of the problem might be to use nation names instead of player (ruler) names. That would lose some flavor, but it's better to use something that's uniform. That would easily change: "You receive %s's worldmap." to "Y