Localization bug with dates in load game screen

[GunChleoc]

Wesnoth can't handle my operating system's locale (gd) in the load game screen and displays English instead.

OS: Windows 7
Game version: 1.10.4
Game Language: Scottish Gaelic (gd)

Walkthrough: Choose "Gàidhlig" in the Languages menu, then go on "Luchdaich" (Load). You might need to get the language files first.

My proposed solution: Add translation of month and weekdays names to the PO files.

I'll add a screenshot.

There is also a discussion in the ideas forum here where someone suggested I create a bug report.

[ivanovic]

Sorry to tell you, but on my Linux box I get this stuff translated automatically. No idea why this is not working for Windows. Yes, the strings for the date and stuff like this depend only on the OS. Yes, the days and month there are not part of the changeable strings at all. The dates are there as some system function.

[GunChleoc]

The location in your forum profile is Germany, so I guess you have German as your locale. It works fine in Windows if I select German as the game language. The issue here isn't Linux vs. Windows, it's majority languages vs. minority languages.

It doesn't take a lot of code to localise month names. E.g. in PHP it looks something like this:

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function formatdatetime($date,$short=false)
{
	$result ="";
  	if(!$short)
  	{
    	$format=getproperty("Date Time Format");
	  	$result= @date($format,strtotime($date));
	  	$result= str_replace("January",getlangarray("date_month",1),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("February",getlangarray("date_month",2),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("March",getlangarray("date_month",3),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("April",getlangarray("date_month",4),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("May",getlangarray("date_month",5),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("June",getlangarray("date_month",6),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("July",getlangarray("date_month",7),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("August",getlangarray("date_month",8),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("September",getlangarray("date_month",9),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("October",getlangarray("date_month",10),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("November",getlangarray("date_month",11),$result);
	  	$result= str_replace("December",getlangarray("date_month",12),$result);
  	}
  	else
  	{
    	$format=SHORTDATETIMEFORMAT;
    	$result= @date($format,strtotime($date));
  	}
  	return str_replace(" "," ",$result);;
}

Plus you could use the same method for short month names, days of the week etc. This works fine for the Roman calendar at least.

I haven't managed to compile Wesnoth so far, so I can't implement this myself. I also don't speak C++ yet.