Re: Polish translation

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@gmx.net>]

On 09.10.2004 23:59, Torinthiel wrote:
> Ok, so here is translation for Uprising and the new string for General.
> I hope the patches made it unscrewed by my mailer.
They didn't.

> And some other issues - I don't know if You can do anything about the
> font but it's not quite good.
Have you tried using the font with some other program (like your desktop
or something)? SDL_ttf apparently has a few issues with some glyphs
(e.g. the German 'ö', too), so some things may not be the font's fault.
If it's indeed the font, we have several options:

- fix the font ourselves
- try to get the Bepa-Roman maintainer to correct the issues
- switch to another font

We probably don't have anyone with the skills to fix the font ourselves,
and fixes should go upstream anyway. The Bepa-Roman font we currently
use is a derivative of the Bitstream Vera fonts. There are a lot of
modifications around. The most active project seems to be the DejáVu
font (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/) which has recently started to
merge with Bepa-Roman. Can you try that one? If it also has the issues
you noticed the best chance to get them fixed is to talk to the DejáVu
maintainer(s) directly.

> And completely out of translations topic - Can anyone tell me why
> General.src is made executable by the CVS?
The file originally came from a FAT fs which causes the files to
always be executable on Linux. Unfortunately, I didn't adjust the
flag before checking the file in. I'm not sure if CVS also updates
the file attributes when a file gets committed. If it does, the
executable bit will go away when your changes go in. If it doesn't
I'll have to investigate how to toggle it manually.

> Also, it would be nice if one could load transport units in base
You're right, this limitation is a little annoying sometimes.
However, it's non-trivial to implement and I'm not sure whether
it's really worth the effort. At least I usually find something
else I'd rather invest my time in.

Jens