Re: [Bug-gnubg] Weird I18N behaviour under Windows

[Jim Segrave]

Followup to this:
> 
> I had a report from Renzo Campagna, who is one of the translators of
> the Italian version that there is something odd in the annotation and
> hint windows. When set to diplay MWC as a percentage, then the MWC
> column is grotequely wide - maybe 50 character or so.  Under Linux or
> FreeNBSD, the column is normal width. I have verified this myself
> under Win2K, Renzo reported it with XP. I tested using the same
> gnubg.mo file from Nardy's distribution on Linux and there was still
> no problem so it's not a corrupt .mo fille.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

I found and fixed it (I think, not tested under Win2k). 

It was simply an empty string being passed to gettext(), which
translates to a lengthy description of the language file. Now I wonder
why my Unix boxes didn't have a problem with this. Does gtk-2.x resize
windows when you change labels and gtk-1.x not do so?

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden