[josm-dev] Translations don't fit screen?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    it is sad that German is a language in which it takes so much longer 
to say things than in English. (The French probably have the same problem!)

In many JOSM dialogs, the text is cut off in the German version (see 
attached upload dialog screenshot). Why does that happen - should the 
dialog not adjust itself due to all the "preferredSize" magic in the UI 
  components?

Is something broken with my fonts? Or do German translators just have to 
learn to express themselves less profusely?

If I cannot get this fixed then I might have to switch back to using the 
English JOSM version for the next German issue of the OSM book - what 
good is having JOSM in your language if every second label ends in 
"..."? (And as any i18n freak knows, there are definitely languages in 
which the bit at the end matters most...)

Bye
Frederik
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