Re: Problems with dialogue / Esperanto city names

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 at 13:29, Marko Lindqvist <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 at 05:22, Benno Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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"
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>
>  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)

Thanks, I've created tickets for both of these.