Hi Allin, Jack and Sven,
I'm trying to complete gretl's french translation and from time to time I
compile the MO file and test it in "real-life situations". Sometimes I set
the language on "Automatic" french being my OS X language and sometimes
simply in "French". Of course, in both cases everything appears in french.
I estimate a MCO model (not a meaningful one actually but just for the sake
of testing) and then check the "Analysis -> Forecast" Menu... and here
things mix up. Gretl pops up with a warning window ("There are no
observations available for forecasting out of sample....") whose message is:
1) in english, if language is set on "French";
2) in albanian, if language is set on "Automatic";
Besides, I'm also working on an albanian translation but as I reported some
days ago, my OS X doesn't support the sq_locale (didn't find a way to fix
it yet). Interestingly, though the sq_locale doesn't work, the message
still uses the sq_locale.
I deleted the sq_locale directory from gretl to see how this may impact the
behaviour on 2): it changed now in english. Needless to say, that the
message is actually translated into french so apparently there's no reason
why gretl uses english or albanian instead.
I tried on many time series datasets but still got the same result.
Best,
Artur