Re: Problems with dialogue / Esperanto city names

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 at 05:22, Benno Lang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on the Esperanto translation. At the moment I'm mostly
> focusing on making sure the in-game messages are translated sensibly.
> Then I'll work on the help text etc.
>
> I have two questions:
> 1. The nation names don't seem to get translated in certain dialogues;
> is this a bug or is there something else I need to do? I've tested
> using both a server started by the client (attached image with
> Mongols), and using a separate client and server (attached image with
> Arabs). Relevant lines from the eo.po files:
>
> #: data/civ1/nations.ruleset:1265 data/civ2/nations.ruleset:1526
> #: data/nation/mongol.ruleset:5
> msgid "Mongol"
> msgstr "Mongola"
>
> #: data/civ1/nations.ruleset:1266 data/civ2/nations.ruleset:1527
> #: data/nation/mongol.ruleset:6
> msgid "?plural:Mongols"
> msgstr "?plural:Mongoloj"
>
> #: data/nation/arab.ruleset:5
> msgid "Arab"
> msgstr "Araba"
>
> #: data/nation/arab.ruleset:6
> msgid "?plural:Arabs"
> msgstr "?plural:Araboj"
>

 Please file a bug ticket about this:
https://osdn.net/ticket/newticket.php?group_id=12505


>
> 2. The city names for the "Esperant" nation seem to be somewhat random
> gibberish. I've updated the list to be international cities important
> in the history of Esperanto: Zamenhof's birth city; city of first
> Esperanto club; city where the UEA was founded; cities where the
> Universala Kongreso has been held (one city per country for greater
> international flavour). I've also added some other city names using
> Esperanto cultural stuff (books/concepts). I've kept and refined a
> handful of the original city names. I'm not sure if this is a welcome
> change so I've attached a diff for discussion instead of just
> committing it.
>

  Open a ticket about this too, and attach your patch there. As it's not a
translation change, it needs to go through review + acceptance (and it
needs to be pushed in by one of the maintainers that know the process and
have rights to do it)


 - ML