Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#19040) Rulesets with identical strings for multiple meanings
Hi, translators just tuning in (cc'd the list),
I sent bugs a list of ruleset oddities. The first one's sort of clear,
for the last two we could throw a quick poll: is this a problem in your
language?
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 18:50 -0700, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19040 >
[2: Identical strings for multiple meanings for nations, e.g. Hacker for
nation + male ruler name]
> The rulesets affected that I could spot on a quick glance:
> > * hacker
> > * european
> What exactly is the problem with European? The 'European' nation group is
> distinguished with ?nationgroup:
It seems it's not caused by the same thing; I just noticed the effects
in the po/pot and missed that. The "European" string, without ?s, is in
all rulesets of people within Europe on line 5 (e.g. the Finnish
ruleset), while it's on line 3 in the European ruleset. I'd guess line 5
does some kind of grouping among nations, like a bunch of rulesets have
"Medieval" there. But the European ruleset uses the same string in
strings like "The %s %s crashes" ("European", "fighter plane").
I need to translate the line-3-sort-of European to 'belonging to the
European people' to make sense in those messages*, while it's kind of
stuffy to say of the line-5-sort that the Finnish nation is one of the
nations belonging to the European people. I'd more prefer to say that
it's, um, well, "European".
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