[Bug-gnubg] Translation issues

[Petr Kadlec]

Hello!
During translation of gnubg to Czech, I have found some terms that are not 
sent to gettext for translation and therefore are always in English. I have 
also encountered some more generic problems with the translation issues. (A 
question: should similar problems go here, or to the Savannah bug report 
system? Or, should I try to fix the problems myself and sent it to CVS? I 
don't know what is the good manner [and what rights do I have :) ].)

1. Generic problems
I use UTF-8 for Czech translation, which brings some issues that were 
probably not expected:
- HTML, EPS, ... export is corrupt (HTML has encoding hardcoded to 
ISO-8859-1, I reported this into the Savannah system before), according to 
the ChangeLog, LaTeX export should be already corrected and use utf-8, 
which is great.
- When gnubg uses a plain text field (I don't know how is this control 
properly called in GTK) in eval, gammon values, etc., the text is always 
corrupted. One cause is the text probably always uses iso-8859-1, the 
second is that it is probably unable to handle UTF-8 at all. I don't know a 
simple correct solution. Maybe the text has to be recoded by gnubg (from 
some specified input encoding (UTF-8 for Czech) to proper charset)?
- What should I do with the tables, such as the basic probability table 
output by eval? Shouldn't the program try to print the table using some 
format with width specifiers? After "normal" translation, the table 
alignment is broken, I could use quirks like translating "xxx" to "   yyy" 
instead of "yyy", but I don't think it should be done that way.

2. Items that are not translated, but should be:

gtkgame.c
4070 "Start a new money game session"
4659 "Go to default path"

gtkrace.c
261 "Bower's interpolation: "
        "%d%% cubeless gwc (%s on roll)"
334 "EPC = Effective pip count = "
        "Avg. rolls * 8.167"
340 "Wastage = EPC - Pips"
397 "Number of rolls to bear off, "
        "assuming each player has one "
        "chequer only."

gtkprefs.c
93 pieceTypeStr is marked as translatable, but gettext is later never 
called on it
94 textureTypeStr dtto
551 "Show background in bear-off trays"
552 "If unset the bear-off trays will be drawn with the board colour"
1213--1221 "3d Performance is very fast/good/ok/poor/very poor.\n"
1223 "%s\n(%d frames per second)\n"
1291 "Light Source Type"
1298 "Positional"
1303 "Directional"
1309 "Light Position"
1319 "Left"
1331 "Right"
1340 "Bottom"
1353 "Top"
1359 "Low"
1371 "High"
1384 "Ambient"
1398 "Diffuse"
1412 "Specular"
1564 "FOV skew: "
1577 "Vary the field-of-view of the 3d display"
1582 "Display the 3d board with a 2d overhead view"

At more places in gnubg: "n/a" is translated only at some occurrences, left 
untranslated at others. It should probably be unified.

With regards,
Petr Kadlec

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Petr Kadlec, student
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
The Czech Technical University
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