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bug #35181: Shortened menunames in tinymode not translated

Submitter:  Byrial Jensen <bjensen>
Submitted:  Tue 27 Dec 2011 11:58:28 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  XBoard (X11) Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None
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Sun 22 Jan 2012 01:22:48 AM UTC, comment #1: 

fixed in

971e8861ca82286fa3d6e850dd80277875cee983
5e9c0cf341ed15642e78dd61bcc8731399bafedb

by using a fixed width for the menus

Arun Persaud <apersaud>
Group administrator
Tue 27 Dec 2011 11:58:28 AM UTC, original submission:  

The menu names in the menubar will in size tiny be shortened to one letter, but it will be the first letter of the English name independent of the current interface language.

The responsible code is in xboard.c:

  j = 0;
  XtSetArg(args[j], XtNmenuName, XtNewString(menuName));  j++;
  if (tinyLayout) {
    char shortName[2];
    shortName[0] = mb->name[0];
    shortName[1] = NULLCHAR;
    XtSetArg(args[j], XtNlabel, XtNewString(shortName)); j++;
  }
  else {
    XtSetArg(args[j], XtNlabel, XtNewString(_(mb->name))); j++;
  }

I see 3 ways to fix that:
1) Extract the first character from the localized name using mbtowc(). (mbtowc stands for Multi Byte char TO Wide Char). It is easy to do, but the method may not be available for all as mbtowc() is a C99 function.
2) Extract the first character from the localized name using some library for handling multibyte chars. That could be a fallback solution if 1) fails, but means that the library have to be installed or distributed together with xboard.
3) Let the translators translate all the 1 letter abbreviations. Requires no extra configuration, and let the translators choose something else than the first letter if that is more appropriate for their language, so this is probably the best solution, I think.

What do you think?

Byrial Jensen <bjensen>
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    2012-09-29 apersaud StatusReady For Test Fixed
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    2012-01-22 apersaud StatusNone Ready For Test

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