Topic: Untranslatable strings

I ran utils/buildlocale.py (assuming that's what I need to do to update the pot and po files) and the error still happens.

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SirVer wrote:

However, we don't have ngettext support for Lua at this time

I will gladly add this in, it should be a very quick change too. Can you post some examples of how you would want to use it? Just like:

"I have " .. tostring(n) .. " " ... ngettext("orange", n)

I am not very familiar with how gettext works, that's why I am asking how the interface must look.

We should make it look just like the C ones for consistency. For example:

ngettext("%u soldier", "%u soldiers", total)

Example result for the .po file:

#: ../../src/logic/militarysite.cc:119
#, c-format
msgid "%u soldier"
msgid_plural "%u soldiers"
msgstr[0] "%u saighdear"
msgstr[1] "%u shaighdear"
msgstr[2] "%u saighdearan"
msgstr[3] "%u saighdear"

The number of translation entries depends on the plural definitions for the target language.

I also found a gettext-lua library on Github and this conversation about it.

And you need to run utils/buidcat.py first. It will update the .pot files, then the game should run. 'make lang' will update the .po files.

ETA: I ran buildcat.py successfully, but make has no target lang. So, I'm still getting the error.

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SirVer wrote:

The Lua extension we would not need, we already wrapped some of the gettext stuff for Widelands and getting an external library in is probably more work. But that this guy has made an extractor for lua is awesome - it is even merged into the main gettext release, but I could not figure out if there has been an official release since then. On my system, xgettext just coredumps when I run it on any texts.lua file. Do you know anything about this? If we can get extractions from Lua files, the rest should be very easy to add.

No, I am a complete rookie in this, I just stumbled across this while searching for the ngettext syntax for Lua. I have tried fiddling with gettext extraction once and failed gloriously lol

After running buildcat.py, buidlocale.py should make working locales for you - that is essentially what make lang calls.

Already tried and failed. Tha locales build according to Terminal output, but the boost call still crashes Widelands

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It does. You're my hero!

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I have managed to fix 5 strings

2 of them still need testing though, so I haven't commited the changes yet. Any hints how I can get these on my screen?

 ../../src/logic/production_program.cc:1022
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../../src/network/internet_gaming.cc:434
Server time offset is %i seconds.

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