Re: [Bug-gnubg] Oysteins Build on WinXP

[Jim Segrave]

On Sat 30 Oct 2004 (00:10 +0200), ??ystein Johansen wrote:
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> Achim Mueller wrote:
> | just for fun I installed Oysteins Build on WinXP. The fonts are
> | somewhat crappy.
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> ;-)
> 
> Are you running through VMware or something?
> 
> You can control the fints in the gnubg.gtkrc file. Maybe the font that I
> usually supply with the installations specify a font that's not
> available on your system.
> 
> font = "-unknown-tahoma-normal-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
> 
> Try another font, or comment out that line.
> 
> | Also there is an issue refarding the analysing
> | window. The tab "MWC" in the ""Analysis" window (dock panel) is
> | so big that you can't see anything behind.
> 
> Hmmm... really strange. Ric just reported the same bug (or a similar
> bug). The thing is that Ric didn't got the bug on yesterdays install
> (the install which came out with Czech language), but only got the bug
> using todays install. This really makes me wonder because it is exactly
> the same build. I have not even recompiled!

This sounds very familiar - Renzo Campagna had this problem a long
time ago when the Italian version first went in. As I recall, it was a
problem with the .po file - aha I found it - this also went to the list:

From: Jim Segrave <address@hidden>
To: Renzo Campagna <address@hidden>
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:19:30 +0200

Hmm - using the internationalisation code has unconvered soemthing
interesting:

Try opening the market window when using a .mo file.

There's an array of column titles in gtktheory:

  static char *aszTitles[] = {
    "",
    N_("Dead cube"),
    "" /* N_("Live cube") */,
    N_("Fully live")
  };

and these are run through gettext() for display:

  for ( i = 0; i < 4; ++i )
    asz[ i ] = gettext( aszTitles[ i ] );

The translation of "" is the header from the .po file which is about
as far from a blank string as you can get.


Can you check the .po files for whichever language you are using - I
wonder if this has popped up again. 

It came up again later - the same problem with translating "" - see my
message to the mailing list
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 09:30:06 +0200
From: Jim Segrave <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Weird I18N behaviour under Windows

>From my commit comment, it looks like making sure that empty strings
are defined as NULL, and not "", as "" will expand to the .po file
header, reserving an enormous amount of horizontal space.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden